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White House Aide Mulvaney Reiterates, No Ukraine Money Link to Political Investigations


Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney on Sunday defended his claim that President Donald Trump did not withhold nearly $400 million in military aid to Ukraine in order to get Kyiv to undertake investigations of Democratic rivals and the 2016 election.Mulvaney told reporters last week there was such a” quid pro quo” by Trump, but hours later walked back the statement and continued to advance his revised version of White House policy discussions in an interview on the “Fox News Sunday” talk show.”There were two reasons we held up the aid,” Mulvaney said. “The first one was the …read more

Source:: Voice of America

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