his long time lawyer 'splained it perfectly. donny doesn't explicitly say what he wants - but when he does want something, he'll make it clear to you.
And Zelensky knew Trump as well as he did? Zelensky said he felt absolutely no pressure from Trump, but you're going to take his imprisoned lawyers word for it instead. Shokin stated he was indeed on the tail of Burisma, but you're going to take the Democrats word for it that he wasn't.
Seems to me you on the left don't like direct witnesses, You like "he said" "she said" information and base your claims on that. Second hand, third hand, fourth hand information is just fine with you, but direct information is to be ignored and even called unreliable.
LOL
Sure Zelensky is going to provide cover for Trump. He needs US aid. Throwing the president under the bus would mean he has to wait until the next election.
No, I think even Zelensky knew that he could pressure Trump into releasing the money. That's besides the fact it was only held for a few weeks. The arm of the Democrat party--the MSM would have seen to that.
The President has to have a legitimate reason for holding on to the aid. Trump was checking things out and monitoring other UN countries to see what they were going to do.
What card did Zelensky have to pressure Trump?
Trump had the military aid Zelensky desperately needed.......he needed some personal favors first
How did he desperately need it when he didn't even know it was being held up? Of course free money is good money, but remember, Trump provided military aid prior to that unlike Obama.
are you ever gonna get your head outa donny's colon, raymond?
Ukraine Knew of Aid Freeze by Early August, Undermining Trump Defense
Top officials were told in early August about the delay of $391 million in security assistance, undercutting a chief argument President Trump has used to deny any quid pro quo.
By
Andrew E. Kramer and
Kenneth P. Vogel
- Published Oct. 23, 2019Updated Oct. 24, 2019
KIEV, Ukraine — To Democrats who say that President Trump’s decision to
freeze $391 million in military aid was intended to bully Ukraine’s leader into carrying out investigations for Mr. Trump’s political benefit, the president and his allies have had a simple response: There was no
quid pro quo because the Ukrainians did not know assistance had been blocked.
Ukraine’s military struggled in a bare-bones fight against Russian-backed separatists.
But then on Tuesday, William B. Taylor Jr., the top United States diplomat in Kiev, told House impeachment investigators that
the freeze was directly linked to Mr. Trump’s demand. That did not deter the president, who on Wednesday
approvingly tweeted a quote by a congressional Republican saying neither Mr. Taylor nor any other witness had “provided testimony that the Ukrainians were aware that military aid was being withheld.”
In fact, word of the aid freeze had gotten to high-level Ukrainian officials by the first week in August, according to interviews and documents obtained by The New York Times.
The problem was not bureaucratic, the Ukrainians were told. To address it, they were advised, they should reach out to Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, according to the interviews and records.
The timing of the communications, which have not previously been reported, shows that Ukraine was aware the White House was holding up the funds
weeks earlier than acknowledged.
It also means that the Ukrainian government was aware of the freeze during most of the period in August when Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani and two American diplomats were pressing President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine to make a public commitment to the investigations.
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Ukraine Knew of Aid Freeze by Early August, Undermining Trump Defense