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2019-11-21 -Lurid Crime Tales-
President Trump Never Impounded Even One Dollar from Ukraine Aid
[American Thinker] Volodymyr Zelensky was wiping his face from the crumbs of a 125-million-dollar meal, fed to him by the Pentagon between March and July of 2019, when he spoke to President Trump on July 25.

The president needs better legal counsel, as do the American people. The current impeachment illusion is based on a pandemic mirage. The nation has been hypnotized to believe that $391.5 million for Ukraine was held back, frozen, slow-walked, canceled, or subject to a nefarious threat by Trump. Wake up, America. Every penny of Ukraine monetary aid, the alleged carrot dangled before Zelensky, was spent on time, according to law, before, during, and after the July 25 call.

The Department of Defense certified Ukraine reforms in a May 23, 2019 letter from John C. Rood to Congress, but this certification was only necessary to release the second $125-million tranche. Read the letter. The tables therein refer to that $125 million as "Tranche 2." So what happened to the first $125 million? It was already spent on Ukraine before the July 25 phone call with Zelensky.

On February 28, Rood wrote to Congress about the first $125 million. He informed Congress the Pentagon was going ahead with this money for Ukraine. It was spent by July to defend Ukraine from Russian aggression. This is the real reason why neither Zelensky nor any other Ukraine official knew that assistance was "held up." The money was flowing freely to them, never subject to nefarious Trump subterfuge. How do I know this? It's hiding in plain sight.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-11-21 02:37|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ]  Top

#1 It appears contracted arms in the pipeline continued to arrive. The 55 day delay might have eventually impacted future deliveries. No word on the Obama approved blankets and MRE's.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-11-21 02:44||   2019-11-21 02:44|| Front Page Top

#2 This could have ended the moment Zelensky said there was no quid pro quo. He could have made things clearer if he wanted. A statement like 'Trump never threatened to withhold anything' would have been the correct thing to do. But there he is making obtuse statements like 'We are feeling left out' and 'US doesn't understand our problems'.
Posted by Dron66046 2019-11-21 02:52||   2019-11-21 02:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Zelensky doesn't want to take sides in internal American conflict - can you blame him?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-11-21 02:58||   2019-11-21 02:58|| Front Page Top

#4 what Trump actually did was sound grumpy in Washington about giving aid to Ukraine.
He told that to Senator Johnson.(but he added:'you will like what we will do')
This I think had the effect of making Democrats enthusiastic about thwarting him, by voting for more aid, and indeed 250k in lethal aid was approved by Congress for fiscal year 2020. Having already sent the smaller amount approved for lethal aid in 2019, he then, following the dictate of Congress. approved more lethal aid on the day that fiscal year 2020 began.
Diplomatically, this allows Trump to tell Putin this was Congress and not himself that did this, and further satisfied Zelensky.
So was Trump's grumpiness about helping Ukraine real, or put on to get Democratic support for it?
Posted by Daniel 2019-11-21 17:07||   2019-11-21 17:07|| Front Page Top

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