September 25, 2019

Is Dan Coats the whistleblower?

July 16, 2018:
Trump announces to the world that he believes Vladimir Putin and not Dan Coats with regard to Russian interference.

July 25, 2019:
Trump partakes in the now controversial phone call with the new president of the Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky

July 28, 2019:
Trump announces that Dan Coats will be leaving his role as director of national intelligence

August 12, 2019:
The whistleblower files a complaint with the intelligence community inspector general

August 15, 2019:
Dan Coates burst into a classified meeting and urged the woman next in line for his job, Deputy Director of National Intelligence Sue Gordon, to resign. They both left their jobs three days after the complaint was filed.

September 24, 2019

McConnell: 'I was not given an explanation' for Ukraine aid delay

Source: The Hill

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said he was not provided an explanation for why the Trump administration held up aid to Ukraine when he pressed senior officials on the matter over the summer.

"I was not given an explanation," McConnell told reporters Tuesday as the congressional furor grew over President Trump's interactions with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

McConnell said he spoke to Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo twice about the matter without receiving clarification for the delay in $391 million in aid to Ukraine.

"I was very actively involved in advocating [for] the aid. I talked to the secretary of Defense, the secretary of State once," he said.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/462828-mcconnell-i-was-not-given-an-explanation-for-ukraine-aid-delay

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Turtle throws Trump under the mini-bus. No references to inter agency reviews or Euros paying their fair share.