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NEW: Trump told his acting CoS, Mick Mulvaney, to hold back $400M in military aid for Ukraine at least a week before the call in which Trump pressured the Ukrainian president to investigate Joe Biden's son.
by @CarolLeonnig @nakashimae @jdawsey1 #Maddow wapo.st/2kGmhY9
@CarolLeonnig @nakashimae @jdawsey1 Administration officials were instructed [by Trump] to tell lawmakers that the delays [for the $400M in military aid to Ukraine] were part of an “interagency process” but to give them no additional information.
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@CarolLeonnig @nakashimae @jdawsey1 "Trump's aides began to worry the move [withholding the military aide to Ukraine] was illegal."
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Polly Sigh
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Trump’s attempt to extort Ukraine's leader followed a months-long fight inside the admin that sidelined national security officials and empowered Trump loyalists — like Rudy Giuliani and Victoria Toensing — to exploit US' relationship with Ukraine.
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The sequence involved the abrupt removal of the US ambassador to Ukraine, the circumvention of senior NSC officials, and the suspension of $400M of aid — all as key officials struggled to piece together Giuliani’s activities from news reports.
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Recall from May: Trump allies have been attacking US Ambassador to Ukraine, career Foreign Service officer Marie Yovanovitch, as part of their ongoing effort to link Ukraine to Joe Biden to help Trump's 2020 reelection effort.
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Polly Sigh
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NEW: White House will release the whistleblower complaint and IG report to Congress, showing the level of seriousness with which they're approaching the House‘s new impeachment inquiry, even as Trump calls it a “witch hunt” or “presidential harassment.”politi.co/2kXGNDN
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Polly Sigh
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Schumer asked to pass a nonbinding Senate resolution on transmitting whistleblower complaint to Intel committees

McConnell did NOT block it and it passed UNANIMOUSLY.

Trump is finished.
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New York Times report from May on Biden, Ukraine and Burisma Holdings:

"No evidence has surfaced that the former vice president intentionally tried to help his son by pressing for the prosecutor general’s dismissal.”

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