Democratic Sen. Chris Coons disputed Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham’s assertion that President Trump's phone call with the Ukrainian president is a “nothing burger” in a tweet today and pushed back that Democrats could be overblowing the call.
"I don't think I'm overblowing anything. The memorandum of this call in black and white, there is a summary of a conversation where President Trump is asking the president of Ukraine to investigate Hunter Biden, and implicitly former Vice President Biden and then is asking if the current attorney general of the United States and President Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, can go and engage in meetings in Ukraine, notionally to pursue this investigation, among other issues. That's pretty striking. I find it hard to believe anyone could conclude that that's a nothing burger,” Coons said.
The Delaware senator continued: “The President of Ukraine clearly says we're in a position where we want to buy more javelins defensive missiles from the United States — an anti tank defensive system — and our president's next sentence is, ‘Do me a favor.’”