Ukraine would appear 'weak' to Russia without withheld US military aid, Trump impeachment inquiry hears

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A senior national security official tells an impeachment inquiry that the aid withheld from Ukraine at the insistence of US President Donald Trump was necessary for the country to negotiate a peace treaty with Russia.

In her testimony, Ms Cooper described at some length the approval process for the millions in aid to Ukraine, including that the Pentagon had determined that Kiev had met anti-corruption requirements for the release of the funds.

"All of the senior leaders of the US national security departments and agencies were all unified in their — in their view that this assistance was essential," Ms Cooper said, according to the transcript. It's nine pages long, has only minor redactions and contains new details on the scandal that launched the impeachment probe.

 

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Trump is POTUS and the people have chosen Trump to be the policy maker ..these are unelected Obama hold overs who have no place in a democracy over ruling the POTUS.This whole Democrate delusion is just the 'Russian collision delusion' take 2 ..Trump is going to win 2020

ABC: 'The impeachment investigation began in September' No, impeachment began in 2016 when Democrats began impeaching the American people for disobeying them by voting for a political outsider who shares their values; values elitist Democrats and Globalists despise. trump2020

A mess on the other side of the World I don’t really want to know about.

First we had the Russia hoax and now the Ukraine hoax. Different country same outcome in the end...

The DNC are also setting up this Kangaroo Court with conditions that were never imposed on Clinton or Nixon. Giving RepAdamSchiff full power to veto any witness the GOP members wish to call. A partisan joke and nothing more.

If realDonaldTrump wins 2020 he'll come after every last conniving traitor that got involved in this attempted coup, these people are playing a high stakes game on the assumption not that they are righteous but purely because they believe they have the numbers to overwhelm him.

Meanwhile, here's what TheirABC won't tell you about the secret Impeachment hearings …

Except is was. Not withheld and they didn’t do shit to investigate Biden

Is this the Aid Trump did give them but Obama didn't ?

Lolz, the harder some people try the sillier they look, when will the ABC learn it doesn't get to set their agenda anymore, your selective reporting is actually really sad 😪. And the ABC never ever did report on Case Bliss Colasurdo , really strange this 😉😉.

So it’s an anti-Russia hysteria hoax all over again.

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