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pnwmom

(108,977 posts)
Sat Feb 26, 2022, 01:31 PM Feb 2022

In 2020 the DOJ hid from Congress 24 Trump emails regarding Ukraine military aid.

We need to see them now.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/01/politics/trump-ukraine-aid-emails-omb-justice-department/index.html

Washington (CNN)The Department of Justice revealed in a court filing late Friday that it has two dozen emails related to President Donald Trump's involvement in the withholding of millions in security assistance to Ukraine -- a disclosure that came just hours after the Senate voted against subpoenaing additional documents and witnesses in Trump's impeachment trial, paving the way for his acquittal.

The filing, released near midnight Friday, marks the first official acknowledgment from the Trump administration that emails about the President's thinking related to the aid exist, and that he was directly involved in asking about and deciding on the aid as early as June. The administration is still blocking those emails from the public and has successfully kept them from Congress.

A lawyer with the Office of Management and Budget wrote to the court that 24 emails between June and September 2019 -- including an internal discussion among DOD officials called "POTUS follow-up" on June 24 -- should stay confidential because the emails describe "communications by either the President, the Vice President, or the President's immediate advisors regarding Presidential decision-making about the scope, duration, and purpose of the hold on military assistance to Ukraine."

Trump's decision to withhold nearly $400 million in US military aid to Ukraine as he pressed the country to investigate Hunter Biden and Joe Biden, his potential 2020 general election rival, are at the center of the President's impeachment trial. Trump and his allies have repeatedly made unfounded and false claims to allege that the Bidens acted corruptly in Ukraine.

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In 2020 the DOJ hid from Congress 24 Trump emails regarding Ukraine military aid. (Original Post) pnwmom Feb 2022 OP
Is There Any SEction Of Our Government THat He Didn't Poison? Me. Feb 2022 #1
He gave free rein to Steve Bannon & others whose stated goal was to destroy the federal govt Hekate Feb 2022 #4
S.O.B. Me. Feb 2022 #5
What did TFG know moondust Feb 2022 #2
Who is surprised by this? LetMyPeopleVote Feb 2022 #3
+1 brer cat Feb 2022 #6

Hekate

(90,673 posts)
4. He gave free rein to Steve Bannon & others whose stated goal was to destroy the federal govt
Sat Feb 26, 2022, 02:19 PM
Feb 2022

As Rachel kept telling us, Trump “hollowed out” whole departments.

If there is even one place he didn’t poison, it was an oversight.

Me.

(35,454 posts)
5. S.O.B.
Sat Feb 26, 2022, 02:23 PM
Feb 2022

I can think of a remedy for both he and putin, one often suggested by cons for Dems, but won't put it in to words

moondust

(19,979 posts)
2. What did TFG know
Sat Feb 26, 2022, 01:43 PM
Feb 2022

and when did he know it?

Was he aware back in 2019 that his daddy in the Kremlin was planning to "liberate" Ukraine? Did that play into his withholding military aid to Ukraine?

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