Trump administration broke the law over Ukraine aid, says watchdog

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The White House violated federal law in withholding security assistance to Ukraine, a United States federal watchdog agency says.

The White House has violated federal law in withholding security assistance to Ukraine, a United States federal watchdog agency has said.The aid was held up on orders from Mr Trump but was released after a complaintThe Government Accountability Office said in a report that the Trump Administration violated the law in holding up the aid, which Congress passed less than a year ago.

It's nine pages long, has only minor redactions and contains new details on the scandal that launched the impeachment probe Its findings are not legally binding, but its reports are seen by politicians as objective, reliable and generally uncontested. The GAO has no prosecutorial power.

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Get Biden first or it's a non event.

'The independent agency(watchdog*),which reports to Congress...' Where was the(*)when JW denounced: Pelosi&Cny distorted wording.ABCNews hides RelevantInformation POTUS:could be guilty of Coverup but

Yawn yawn yawn. Start reporting real news

MORE FAKE BIAS INACCURATE ABC NEWS , GET IT RIGHT

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Please stop with the non stop USA impeachment news. You are in Australia we don’t want to hear it.

Yes Trump did temporarily hold-up the funds to check out the newly installed Zelensky admin, then once Trump was satisfied, he released the funds to Ukraine *before* the date congress had set, nice try ABC 😉😉.

Well hell folks then Biden & Obama are in big trouble, see how it works ABC.

I hope Ukraine is doing good! We doing good with Trump issues!

Meanwhile, the aid was released in the allotted time frame, but naturally TheirABC won't tell you that.

Money delivered 9/11/2019 & Zelensky didn’t know funds were w/held ‘til 8/29...corrupt Ukraine has stolen over $7B in USA taxpayer funds! Y isn’t GAO screaming about that? They fail 2 go after any significant govt waste, the tossers! Deep State bureaucrats. FakeNews

Yes, they certainly did, didn't they?............. NOW WHAT? Breeze over it an let T distract with more Shenanigans, or actually punish these corrupt SOB's.

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