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Mulvaney’s Ukraine Story Undercut by Trump’s Former Diplomat to the Country


Win McNamee/GettyIn his eye-popping press conference last week, White House Acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney said that the Trump administration withheld military aide from Ukraine in part to secure cooperation with a Justice Department investigation into the origins of Robert Mueller’s Russia probe. But a former top U.S. envoy to Ukraine has said the DOJ never actually asked the White House for that help. Mulvaney has since tried to walk back his claim, saying the administration only held up military aid to Ukraine because of the country’s corruption and because other countries weren’t giving more aid as well. But …read more

Source:: The Daily Beast

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