The Trump administration froze aid to Ukraine just 91 minutes after the president got off the phone with Ukraine’s leader and asked for investigations into Joe Biden and the 2016 election, according to newly released emails. Democrats allege that Trump abused his power by trying to pressure Ukraine to investigate his political opponents, and used the military aid as leverage. On the same day that the president saw the article, Duffey asked the Pentagon’s chief financial officer, Elaine McCusker, about the aid to Ukraine. Others at OMB and the Pentagon tried to organize a campaign inside administration to lobby the president to release the aid to Ukraine. According to the emails, Duffey told McCusker on September 11 that the aid to Ukraine would proceed.

Source: Daily Mail December 22, 2019 03:20 UTC