Fox News previously claimed that there was no quid pro quo because Ukraine did not know about the withholding of aid

Fox & Friends co-host Ainsley Earhardt insisted that “if every single person who has gone behind closed doors and not one of them has said that Ukraine knew that they were holding up aid, then there is no quid pro quo.”

Earhardt also paraphrased a GOP congressman’s insistence that “there has not been one person who said that Ukraine knew that the money was being delayed, so therefore there is no quid pro quo."

Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy insisted that “nobody has said that the Ukrainians knew that U.S. aid was withheld,” and therefore, “you can’t have quid pro quo without the quo.”

Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum said that because Ukraine “didn’t know that the military aid had had a pause on it, it makes it difficult” to conclude that there was a quid pro quo.

On Hannity, Fox contributor Sara Carter said that there’s “absolutely no quid pro quo” because the Ukrainian president “had no idea that any military aid was being withheld.”

On her Fox show, host Laura Ingraham said that “Ukrainian leaders didn’t even know that aid was being withheld.”

Fox’s Deroy Murdock said that Ukrainian officials “never knew the military aid was delayed,” adding, “You can’t have a quid pro quo unless the person knows ‘OK, he’s holding back something I want.’”