David Holmes, a U.S. diplomat in Kiev, made an alarming point during his testimony on Thursday: Though the military aid has been released, Ukraine isn’t necessarily off the hook from President Donald Trump’s demands due to the fact that Trump still hasn’t fully given them what they wanted.
Holmes told House impeachment investigators that despite Trump’s insistence that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky experienced “no pressure” to announce an investigation into Joe Biden, Zelensky and other Ukrainian officials did feel pressured to do so – even after Trump unfroze the nearly $400 million in military aid to the country on September 11.
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Source:: TPM
