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Report: State Department defied White House, released Ukraine aid before President Trump says he authorized it


Although President Donald Trump said he released aid money to Ukraine on Sept. 11 without a public statement from Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky about investigating the Bidens, Bloomberg reported that the State Department actually released the aid days earlier, and Trump may not have released it at all otherwise.President Trump’s July 25 call with Zelensky, over which Democrats are attempting to impeach him, included references to promised aid money and desired investigations that Democrats are framing as extortion and an abuse of presidential power.One of the defenses by Republicans against these accusations is that because President Trump released the aid …read more

Source:: The Blaze

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