Was the Whistle-Blower’s complaint about repeated attempts to shake down Ukraine in order to get kompromat on Joe Biden, having failed in a previous, associated attempt to get such information on Hillary Clinton. How many different "patterns of misconduct" since 2016 has Individual-1 pursued.
Trump’s “pattern of misconduct” does now sound more like the unfolding story of the earlier Giuliani interactions with the Ukrainians to find material on Biden with now the discovery of PABOTUS*’s involvement.
Ukraine’s new president Volodymyr Zelensky was fulsome in expressing his gratitude to Donald Trump for the military aid package.
The former professional comedian insisted his relationship with the former reality TV star was “very good” and that he was “sure we will have a meeting in the White House”.
But the $250m (£280m) of arms for Ukrainian forces, which are confronting Russian backed separatists, has been enmeshed in a bitter battle between the US president and his opponents over accusations that he has tried to manipulate it for underhand political reasons.
The Trump administration had in fact suspended the “Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative”, only agreeing to unblock it after rising bipartisan clamour from congress.
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