Posted on 12/24/2019 2:02:38 PM PST by bitt
For at least the second significant time, an organization financed by billionaire activist George Soros released material playing a central role in directly fueling the impeachment narrative targeting President Trump.
The news media and Democrats are seizing on emails released to the Soros-funded Center for Public Integrity on Friday showing the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) requested the Pentagon withhold military aid to Ukraine the same day as Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The OMB immediately pushed back explaining the aid hold was actually announced seven days prior to Trump’s July 25 phone call and that the Center for Public Integrity was harping on one line within 146 pages of documents that the organization obtained to paint an inaccurate and misleading picture of the timing of the aid hold.
The OMB strongly denied that the email, one of many, had anything to do with Trump’s phone call, explaining the communication was part of an ongoing process put into place one week early.
The email being hyped by the media shows an official with the White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Mike Duffey, contacted Pentagon officials 91 minutes after Trump’s call with Zelensky to discuss withholding aid.
“Based on guidance I have received and in light of the Administration’s plan to review assistance to Ukraine, including the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, please hold off on any additional DoD obligations of these funds, pending direction from that process,” Duffey wrote, according to the documents.
Rachel Semmel, a spokeswoman for OMB, told reporters it was “reckless to tie the hold of funds to the phone call.”
“As has been established and publicly reported, the hold was announced in an interagency meeting on July 18,” she said. “To pull a line out of one email and fail
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9. Re Soros being under someone’s protection, let me list them. Obama Obama, and Obama, plus Hillary, Rice, Holder, Mueller, Comey, Brennan the Devil, the mainstream media, American Marxists, corrupt judges, gutless federal prosecutors, and his well paid KAPO like stooges. Apologies to any Soros whores I haven’t mentioned. Making a list, checking it twice !!!!
9. Re Soros being under someone’s protection, let me list them. Obama Obama, and Obama, plus Hillary, Rice, Holder, Mueller, Comey, Brennan the Devil, the mainstream media, American Marxists, corrupt judges, gutless federal prosecutors, and his well paid KAPO like stooges. Apologies to any Soros whores I haven’t mentioned.
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