Pentagon official says Ukrainians asked about aid the same day Trump spoke to Zelensky by jonward11
WASHINGTON — A senior Pentagon official told the Congressional impeachment inquiry that Ukrainian officials inquired about the delay in U.S. military assistance to their country on the same day President Trump asked the Ukrainian president to investigate Joe Biden.
“And did that connote to you that they were concerned that something was in fact going on with it?” asked House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who is leading the inquiry. The timing is significant because Trump pressured the Ukrainians to conduct an investigations into Biden, holding out a potential White House meeting with Ukrainian President Volodmyr Zelensky as leverage, U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland told the House Intelligence Committee earlier Wednesday.
Republicans have said that Trump could not have been engaging in a quid pro quo, because by their reckoning Ukraine didn’t even realize the aid had been held back until much later in the summer.
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