House panels considering whether to impeach President Donald Trump issued subpoenas on Monday to the Defense Department and Office of Management and Budget, the latest move in a wide-ranging investigation into how the President wielded U.S. foreign policy as a blunt instrument to pressure Ukraine into manufacturing political dirt.
The subpoenas target a pattern of events in which the Trump administration withheld $250 million in security assistance for Ukraine as Trump, his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, and others applied pressure on Kyiv to draw up dirt on Joe Biden and discrediting the Trump-Russia investigation.
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Source:: TPM
