Susan Rice: "No question this was a set up"

"It was a play to his base. But above all it was a play to Vladimir Putin to show fealty."

"It was an effort to humiliate him, to scuttle the US Ukraine relationship, so that Trump no longer feels any obligation to provide support. And to hand US interests, and Ukraine and potentially Europe, to Putin on a silver platter." 

In my words, to commit treason against US democracy and turn us into just another fascist regime.