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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCBS Overnight News/Explanation why Ukraine funds held back.
Actually said in another manner: "Wanted to make sure the American taxpayers' money would be used properly."Yah, what a pantload....
»»According to GAO General Counsel Thomas H. Armstrong, the White House OMB told GAO that it withheld the funds to ensure that they were not spent "'in a manner that could conflict with the President's foreign policy.''««
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CBS Overnight News/Explanation why Ukraine funds held back. (Original Post)
sprinkleeninow
Jan 2020
OP
mercuryblues
(14,547 posts)1. According to Parnas
This was only the 1st step. If Zelensky didn't agree to open a Biden investigation, trump was going to withhold all aid.
gab13by13
(21,438 posts)2. It doesn't matter what reason Trump gave
he broke the law by withholding the money.
sprinkleeninow
(20,267 posts)4. They have various versions for different occasions.
Sure a law was broken/a criminal act committed. They trying to sugar coat the reason why they did it expecting it to be swallowed more easily by the duped ones.
Cosmocat
(14,575 posts)3. Yep
This is what the brainless base is dutifully parroting on social media ...
Martin Eden
(12,878 posts)5. "the president's foreign policy"
In other words, Vlad Putin's policy.