Emails Show Trump Asked About Ukraine Aid Before Zelensky Call
Source: MSN
New documents show President Donald Trump asked about U.S. military aid to Ukraine a month before the call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that went on to trigger the impeachment investigation into Trump.
The heavily-redacted documents, obtained under a Freedom of Information request by the Center for Public Integrity, also show that administration officials ordered a hold on the aid about an hour after the leaders call on July 25.
Trump asked about a June 19 article in the Washington Examiner newspaper referencing the aid. Michael Duffey, an official at the Office of Management and Budget, wrote to the Pentagon requesting more detail about the funding, according to an email from Duffey to the Pentagon comptroller.
The President has asked about this funding release, and I have been tasked to follow-up with someone over there to get more detail.
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Yet, Republicans will insist that Trump was not trying to solicit foreign interference in the 2020 elections by announcing an investigation into Biden.
RockRaven
(14,974 posts)of these funds by the executive branch *outside of clearly delineated parameters dictated by previously existing federal law*... WHICH. WERE. NOT. FOLLOWED. IN. THIS. CASE.
The fact that they asked about stopping/holding it without recognized legitimate cause is evidence of their corrupt intent. Their holding it is evidence of their corrupt intent. Their failure to follow procedure/law whilst holding it is evidence of their corrupt intent. Their releasing it when exposed by the whistleblower is evidence of their corrupt intent.
Every day there is more and more evidence that the only way to acquit Trump of his impeachment charges is to blatantly, overtly, unashamedly not care about reality, facts, law, the Constitution, or oath-sworn duty.
And make no mistake, the Senate GrOPers WILL acquit him. Let's wake the public the fuck up about what that MEANS about the GOP (if any of those public have been asleep for the past half-century, they might not know).
aggiesal
(8,919 posts)is a criminal organization.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,014 posts)SunSeeker
(51,574 posts)Make Orwell Fiction Again.
You can by hats and shirts on Amazon with that slogan.
And you can buy hats that say Make America Great Again in Russian.
JudyM
(29,251 posts)Or some rethuglican seeking to score points with Putin via trump, perhaps...?
We can be sure trump didnt find it himself, so someone knows more about that relationship.
IMO, the whole Biden quid pro quo may have just been a delaying tactic to give Putin more time for his maneuvers.