Posted on 12/22/2019 4:10:22 AM PST by SilvieWaldorfMD
WASHINGTON — About 90 minutes after President Trump held a controversial telephone call with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in July, the White House budget office ordered the Pentagon to suspend all military aid that Congress had allocated to Ukraine, according to emails released by the Pentagon late Friday.
A budget official, Michael Duffey, also told the Pentagon to keep quiet about the aid freeze because of the “sensitive nature of the request,” according to a message dated July 25.
An earlier email that Mr. Duffey sent to the Pentagon comptroller suggested that Mr. Trump began asking aides about $250 million in military aid set aside for Ukraine after noticing a June 19 article about it in the Washington Examiner.
The emails add to publicly available information about the events that prompted the Democratic-led House to call for Mr. Trump to be removed from office. On Wednesday, Mr. Trump was impeached for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress along a party-line vote after documents and testimony by senior administration officials revealed that he had withheld $391 million in aid to Ukraine at the same time that he asked for investigations from the Ukrainian president that would benefit him politically.
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He was tweeting about a Fox News poll that showed Biden beating him by 10 points one hour before the call with Zelensky. The thing of value was not a hug, it was colluding with a foreign power in blowing up a political rival.
Trash begets more trash......
The thing of value was not a hug, it was colluding with a foreign power in blowing up a political rival.
Hell, the e-mail wasn’t all that controversial. They literally said it was being delayed but expected to go through normal process in time. There is no incriminating information at all. They need to just stop lying 100% of the time. It’s getting pathetic.
The New York Times, ever present with anti-American communist style disinformation. They never let the truth get in their way or into their newspaper.
The new leaders of the NYTs are just as ethically and ideologically corrupt as many of the old ones were, and pro-Soviet/Russia to boot. Published disinformation by Austrialian Communist, KGB agent Wilfred Burchett without identifying him as such, plus leftist crap by Anthony Lewis (he definitely wasn’t on America’s side), and had a longtime Communist Party USA member (admitted) as their top obituary writer (Alden Whitman), who wrote or used communist supplied coverup materials/disinformation in very large obits of key communists, esp. Paul Robeson and Hugh Mulzac.
Some of this was covered in the Accuracy in Media Bulletin about 1977 on Robeson. First place to lay out Robeson’s true CPUSA/KGB identity. Robeson was one of two KGB agents (the other was Harry Bridges, also an Australian Communist Party member, KGB member, and CPUSA member) who got Frank Marshall Davis of Chicago to go down to Hawaii to help the CPUSA try to take over the Democrat Party movement which literally ran Honolulu and much of the island thru CPUSA labor unions (ILWU).
Davis was an important player in the life of one Stanley Dunham ?(grandfather of Barack Obama) and Obama himself when they lived in Hawaii. Stanley was a drinking buddy of Frank’s.
End of history lesson for today.
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