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Virginia Heffernan: A Republican line no one believes: Trump hates corruption, especially in Ukraine. Yeah, no

Why was President Trump so hot to get the Ukrainian president to star in an American attack ad about one board member at Burisma Holdings in Kyiv?

Was it perhaps because that board member's last name was Biden?

Oh, come on. That's outlandish. It couldn't be. That would mean the president of the United States was using his office to coerce an ally into smearing the family of a political rival. That would be corrupt. That would be impeachable.

And yet here we are. With each witness who

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