Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and US President Donald Trump meet in New York, on Sept 25, 2019.PHOTO: AFP
FOX News: Ukrainian official appears to cast doubt on quid pro quo claim
An unnamed Ukrainian official said that Kiev was not made aware that the U.S. suspended security funds until a month after President Trump's call with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky, which calls into question the whistleblower's account and Democrats' arguments that there was a quid pro quo for the aid.
The official told The New York Times that Zelensky's government was unaware about the aid issue until a month after Trump's July 25 phone call in which he discussed Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
The whistleblower complaint – citing U.S. officials – claimed that officials in Kiev knew that the military aid could be in jeopardy in early August, but the whistleblower admitted to not knowing "how or when they learned of it."
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WNU Editor: The Ukraine press is now saying the same thing. How could there be a quid pro quo when the Ukraine President did not even know that the military aid was on hold. As for the general reaction in Ukraine. As this blog mentioned yesterday, reaction in Ukraine to this CIA officer's complaint has been mostly met with a shrug. Even the European press is now picking up on this lack of interest .... 'This is very strange': Ukraine's view of the Trump whistleblower complaint (The Guardian).
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this is from the link (guardian) you provide
According to the memorandum describing the telephone call, Zelenskiy sought to flatter Trump, telling him that he had stayed at Trump Tower during a visit to New York and assuring him that prosecutors would look into the company where Biden’s son was installed on the board of directors. He told the US president that the next prosecutor would be “100% my person”.
“[Trump] is a difficult character and I think Zelenskiy was in a hard position, he needed to find a common language,” said Svitlana Bondarenko, 34, an accountant.
1. they did not know millions not forthcoming from US?
2. even if so: do you really think it is ok for the president of our country to ask a foreign nation to get the goods on a political rival?
ps:
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President Trump told his acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, to hold back almost $400 million in military aid for Ukraine at least a week before a phone call in which Trump is said to have pressured the Ukrainian president to investigate the son of former vice president Joe Biden, according to three senior administration officials.
Officials at the Office of Management and Budget relayed Trump’s order to the State Department and the Pentagon during an interagency meeting in mid-July, according to officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. They explained that the president had “concerns” and wanted to analyze whether the money needed to be spent.
[via Washington Post]
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Sad, fred.
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