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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIn 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.
Me.
(35,454 posts)He and those who aided and abetted
Hekate
(90,673 posts)As Rachel kept telling us, Trump hollowed out whole departments.
If there is even one place he didnt poison, it was an oversight.
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)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?
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,169 posts)TFG tried to hide his crimes. This can be a basis for obstruction of justice