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- Historians, foreign policy experts, and veteran diplomats all say that the Ukraine scandal threatening Donald Trump's presidency is unprecedented.
- President Donald Trump in a July phone call urged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who'd recently been elected, to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, according to both a memo released by the White House and a whistleblower complaint that focuses heavily on the conversation.
- One presidential historian told Insider that what Trump did with Ukraine was not only "profoundly damaging" but also "profoundly stupid."
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"Unprecedented."
It's a word that's been tossed around repeatedly — and often quite lazily — by political pundits during Donald Trump's presidency, but historians and veteran diplomats say it applies to the Ukraine scandal perhaps more so than any other controversy the president has faced in his tenure thus far.
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