Section: US & Canada
Trump Administration Illegally Withheld Aid From Ukraine, GAO Finds
The Trump administration violated the law by withholding $214 million in security assistance to Ukraine in the summer of 2019, according to a legal opinion by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office. “Today, GAO issued a legal decision concluding that the Office of Management and Budget violated the law when it withheld approximately...
New Report: Trump Violated US Funding Law at Center of Impeachment Trial
U.S. President Donald Trump violated the country’s spending law last year when he temporarily withheld $391 million in congressionally approved military aid to Ukraine while at the same pressing Kyiv to launch investigations to benefit himself politically, a government watchdog agency concluded Thursday in a decision that is at the heart of...
GAO report: Trump administration violated law by withholding aid to Ukraine
The Trump administration violated the law when it withheld military aid to Ukraine for policy reasons, according to a Government Accountability Office memo released just as articles of impeachment are being transmitted from the House to the Senate. The House impeachment saga has centered on the accusation that President Donald Trump abused his...
By Withholding Funds to Ukraine, Trump Broke the Law
One argument that President Donald Trump’s supporters have employed in the impeachment debate is that it was merely a “policy dispute.” Yes, Trump held up aid to Ukraine last summer, this line goes, but he did so in pursuit of his agenda in the region. There are several problems with this argument. One is that it has become...
Senate GOP Blows Off GAO Finding That Trump’s Hold On Ukraine Aid Was Illegal
Many Senate Republicans, including several members of the Appropriations Committee, seemed unconcerned by a government watchdog report released Thursday that found that the Trump administration’s broke the law by withholding aid to Ukraine. While some GOP senators claimed they hadn’t seen the report, other Republicans admitted that it...
U.S. Government Watchdog Says Trump Administration Broke Law In Freezing Ukraine Aid
A nonpartisan U.S. Congressional watchdog says the administration of President Donald Trump violated federal law by withholding security assistance to Ukraine. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
White House broke law on Ukraine aid, watchdog says as Senate starts impeachment procedures
The U.S. Senate opens its historic proceedings against President Donald Trump on Thursday with a formal reading of the articles of impeachment by House prosecutors, followed by the arrival at the Capitol of Chief Justice John Roberts, who will swear in all 100 senators as jurors for just the third impeachment trial in U.S. history. …read...
As Parnas Speaks Out, Nunes Now Remembers Talking To Him On The Phone
When call logs and media reports dragged House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes (R-CA) deeper into the inner folds of the impeachment pressure scheme last month, Nunes conveniently did not recall the conversation in question — a series of phone-tag calls between himself and indicted Rudy Giuliani pal, Lev Parnas. But now that...
Watchdog: Freedom Of Speech In Ukraine Deteriorates
Ukraine saw an increase in freedom of speech violations in 2019, local media watchdog Institute of Mass Information (IMI) said in a yearly report. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
WATCH: Articles of impeachment to be formally presented in the Senate
Author: TEGNA, LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press Now that the U.S. Senate has been delivered the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, that body will begin the process Thursday of preparing for his trial. The House impeached Trump for abuse of power, alleging he used military aid as leverage to force Ukraine’s president to...
