Just to be prepared for the never Trumpers out there I keep hearing according to the Constitution it was a crime for Trump to withhold funds to the Ukraine. Based on what? Is he prohibited from delaying moneys appropriated by the House?
These fools are forgetting that the all loved Billy Jeff Clinton signed an agreement with the Ukraine about investigating Corruption.
So Trump would have be guilty under that standard if he didn’t ask to have this looked at regardless of who was involved.
I’ve read some of that and believe it’s total BS, liars are coming out of the woodwork.
I actually voted for him TO WITHOLD FUNDS, from corrupt bastards.
It also is his duty, in fact it was never Ukraine’s money, its ours.
In the brief his attorneys listed several other instances where funds were paused:
In September 2019, the Administration announced that it was withholding over $100 million in aid to Afghanistan over concerns about government corruption.
In August 2019, President Trump announced that the Administration and Seoul were in talks to “substantially” increase South Korea’s share of the expense of U.S. military support for South Korea.
In June, President Trump cut or paused over $550 million in foreign aid to El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala because those countries were not fairly sharing the burdens of preventing mass migration to the United States.
In or around June, the Administration temporarily paused $105 million in military aid to Lebanon. The Administration lifted the hold in December, with one official explaining that the Administration “continually reviews and thoroughly evaluates the effectiveness of all United States foreign assistance to ensure that funds go toward activities that further U.S. foreign policy and national security interests."
In September 2018, the Administration cancelled $300 million in military aid to Pakistan because it was not meeting its counter-terrorism obligations.
His big sin was hat he (legally) took diplomacy away from the diplomats.