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Mulvaney’s OMB Held Up Critical Ukraine Aid for Fear of Russian Reaction, which conflicts with US Nat Sec interests & established US Foreign policy.

“In a briefing w/ Mulvaney, the question centered around the Russian reaction,” said Croft in the transcript.
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When pressed, Croft added the fear was specifically “that RU would react negatively to the provision of javelins to Ukraine.”

Laura Cooper testified that Trump through the OMB, directed the freeze on hundreds of millions of dollars of critical military aid to UKR.
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This against the judgement of career officials from the DOD, the DOS & other relevant agencies.

Cooper also said she raised concerns, as did others on several occasions to senior gov’t officials about the legality of withholding the congressional authorized money,
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Thanks to whoever is running the @NMAAHC for deleting the previous tweet in this thread celebrating Black participation in the Trail of Tears. Here is another one in need of deletion, but the whole thread REALLY needs to be re-thought. #VetransDay2019
We cannot celebrate American empire in any form. With the exception of the Civil War, America does not have a single war that Black people should openly be celebrating their participation in. I'm happy to go war by war if anyone is interested but this should be pretty clear.
While the anti-war movement is often stereotyped as a white hippie thing, Black people have consistently been the most ardent anti-imperialists and callers for peace that this country has ever had. That is a #VeteransDay legacy to be proud of. All else was survival.
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