As senior security officials tried to get a meeting with President Trump to convince him to release military aid to Ukraine, the Trump admin.'s attention was elsewhere: Greenland.
, said that it was his"clear understanding" that security assistance money for Ukraine would be withheld until the country’s president committed to investigating the son of Trump's political rival Joe Biden.
But buried among allegations of the White House's attempted quid pro quo with Ukraine was a reference to an earlier diplomatic row, involving the world’s biggest island. In his testimony, Taylor was asked about his remark that the secretaries of defense and state, the CIA director and the national security adviser had sought a joint meeting with Trump to change his mind on withholding military aid from Ukraine, but that such a meeting was “hard to schedule.”Let our news meet your inbox. The news and stories that matters, delivered weekday mornings.
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