President @realDonaldTrump released the aid the very same day that President Zelensky signed into law two anti-corruption measures: one that ended immunity for Ukrainian legislators and the reinstatement of a vigorous anti-corruption court.
@realDonaldTrump The United States had provided aid to Ukraine in 2017 and 2018, but aid was only paused in 2019. The Democrats assert this is because President Trump wanted Ukraine to investigate a political rival. In fact, several Democrats asked what changed between 2017, 2018, and 2019.
@realDonaldTrump What changed?
A new president who had run on an anti-corruption platform who had been employed by a Ukrainian oligarch before election.
President Zelensky was also surrounded by several of the previous corrupt regime’s officials.
A new president who had run on an anti-corruption platform who had been employed by a Ukrainian oligarch before election.
President Zelensky was also surrounded by several of the previous corrupt regime’s officials.
@realDonaldTrump A brief pause, consistent with the law, to determine the credibility of the new president’s commitment to ending corruption was justified.
@realDonaldTrump To that end, during the pause there were multiple high-level meetings between U.S. leaders and President Zelensky where the need to take anti-corruption measures was emphasized. The aid was released the day the two anticorruption laws were executed.
