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Trump Administration officials worried Ukraine aid halt violated spending law The Center for Public Integrity is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates betrayals of public trust. Sign up to receive our stories. When President Donald Trump ordered a halt to aid to Ukraine last summer, defense officials and diplomats worried first that it would undermine U.S. national security. Ukraine is, as some of them later testified before Congress, on the front lines of Russian aggression, and only robust American support would fend off aggressive Moscow meddling in the West. This worry eventually helped galvanize congressional support for one of the two impeachment articles approved by the House of Representatives on Dec. 18. But there was also a separate, less-noticed facet of the internal administration uproar set off by Trump’s July 12 order stopping the flow of $391 million in weapons and security assistance to Ukraine. Some senior administration officials worried that by defying a law ordering that the funds be spent within a defined period, Trump was asking the officials involved to take an action that was not merely unwise but flatly illegal. READ MORE: https://publicintegrity.org/national-secur...
Posted By: Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
Thursday, January 2nd 2020 at 8:11PM
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But Trump’s decision to stop the aid was not announced, and no formal notification was ever sent to Congress. In an email on July 25, for example, as a senior OMB political appointee named Michael Duffey told the Pentagon’s comptroller about the aid halt, he said, “Given the sensitive nature of the request, I appreciate your keeping that information closely held to those who need to know to execute the direction.” Throughout this period, the reason for the aid halt was rarely discussed, even within the government. In an email on Sept. 11 – the day the funding halt finally ended — OMB official Edna T. Falk Curtain told a senior defense official that “I still have no insight on the rationale for the hold.”
This report is worth reading and you will being to see what it took, to hold back those funds to Ukraine.
Friday, January 3rd 2020 at 5:57PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
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Without a clear justification or any broader effort to gain congressional support, the officials overseeing the expenditure of the funds started hunting for legal guidance as soon as the order to halt the aid was given. When Trump’s political appointees told career officials not to worry, they still did.
“There was a report,” OMB director Mick Mulvaney told reporters at a press conference on Oct. 17, “that if we didn’t pay out the money it would be illegal, it would be unlawful.” He said it was “one of those things that has a little shred of truth in it, that makes it look a lot worse than it really is” because what he regarded as the deadline for spending the money did not fall until the end of September — two and a half months after Trump’s initial order.
Saturday, January 4th 2020 at 9:37PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
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More evidence of what Ron? Don't you get it, none of this matters now. Adam Schiff pre-ejaculated so to speak.
Tuesday, January 7th 2020 at 7:53PM
Steve Williams
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Steve, do you know what this blog is all about? Because if you did, you would not be trying to derail this topic from Trump Administration officials worried Ukraine aid halt violated spending law.
Get on topic by first reading the material.
Tuesday, January 7th 2020 at 10:39PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
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We know for a fact the President didn't violate any OMB "spending law."
Wednesday, January 8th 2020 at 8:19AM
Steve Williams
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Steve, Trump got BUSTED and he has been Impeached and his trial in the Senate will come to pass.
If Trump believes that he did not violate any OMB "spending laws, then why didn't Trump let all the presidents men testify in the House Investigation Steve on that subject?
Wednesday, January 8th 2020 at 12:08PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
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They didn't testify because the House committees' proceedings were unfair Ron.
Thursday, January 9th 2020 at 8:52PM
Steve Williams
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They was told by Trump not to go to The House committees' proceedings.
By the way Steve, on your next reply, tell me what was unfair about The House committees' proceedings Steve, can you do that?
Thursday, January 9th 2020 at 11:04PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
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That's easy Ron. The depositions were all supposed to be classified. But Schiff as usual leaked like a sieve.
Thursday, January 9th 2020 at 11:18PM
Steve Williams
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Ron, every single deposition was leaked the day after. Not to mention some of the opening statements leaked prior to. All you can do now Ron is grin and bear it.
Saturday, January 11th 2020 at 9:56PM
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