The White House allowed a Trump-appointed official in the Office of Management and Budget to prolong withholding aid to Ukraine after career staff members at the OMB raised a stink about the legality of the move, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
Trump maintains that he ordered the more than $400 million in military aid withheld from Ukraine only temporarily to try to force European countries to contribute more to Ukraine’s defense against Russia. However, in a now-infamous July call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump explicitly asks for a political favor in exchange for the aid. That conversation has formed …read more
Source:: TPM
