“There was no blackmail,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said today, referring to his July 25 telephone conversation with Donald Trump, the focus of allegations that the president committed an impeachable offense by trading military aid for a Ukrainian investigation of former Vice President Joe Biden and his son. “They blocked the military aid before we had our conversation, but we did not discuss it. Later we discussed it with the defense minister and he said, ‘We have a problem. They’ve blocked this money.'”
Zelenskiy’s take on the conversation is relevant to the impeachment inquiry but not necessarily dispositive, as Trump unsurprisingly …read more
Source:: Reason.com
