A former Ukraine official told the New York Times that she learned of the Trump administration’s hold on military aid on July 30, a claim that undercuts a GOP talking point in defense of President Trump while corroborating other evidence in the impeachment probe that Ukraine was aware of the aid freeze before it was made known publicly.
The account of Olena Zerkal, a former deputy foreign minister who left the Ukrainian government last week, is the first on-the-record acknowledgment from a member of the Ukrainian government that it knew of the aid freeze soon after Trump’s July 25 call with …read more
Source:: TPM
