The damning new evidence about the Zelensky phone call (premeditated, planned and timed) [View all]

[Roland99]

New documents show that plans to freeze aid to Ukraine were put in place the day before the President made his demand for political help to Ukraine's president. More proof that this was a thought out scheme executed over time. It keeps getting worse.


The damning new evidence about the Zelensky phone call
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/01/22/opinions/impeachment-evidence-planned-effort-withhold-aid-milgram/index.html

While it has been previously shown that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) sent an email to the Department of Defense instructing them to withhold military aid to Ukraine roughly 90 minutes after the President's July 25 call, the new documents provide the first concrete evidence that the White House was preparing to withhold aid to Ukraine prior to the call. They also provide a road map of efforts led by Michael Duffey, the associate director of OMB, to coordinate the halting of the aid with the White House Counsel's office and the Department of Defense.

This revelation follows just days after the non-partisan General Accounting Office declared that the withholding of Ukrainian military aid by the White House was unlawful.

Tuesday night's evidence comes from almost 200 pages of heavily redacted documents turned over by the Office of Management and Budget pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act request by a watchdog group, American Oversight.

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They are something far more important as they show that the President's effort to bully Zelensky to "do us a favor" was premeditated, planned and timed to give the President a hammer to compel a foreign leader to do Trump's personal bidding for his personal gain. (Trump vehemently denies that this was his intent.)