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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump administration sought cuts to programs aimed at fighting corruption in Ukraine
WAPO:
Democrats have slammed White House insistence that Trump was focused on corruption not Bidens when he blocked Ukraine aid funds.
The Trump administration has sought repeatedly to cut foreign aid programs tasked with combating corruption in Ukraine and elsewhere overseas, White House budget documents show, despite recent claims from President Trump and his administration that they have been singularly concerned with fighting corruption in Ukraine.
Those claims have come as the president and his administration sought to explain away a July phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, during which Trump pressured his counterpart to open investigations into Joe Biden and his son Hunter, and into a debunked conspiracy theory involving a hacked Democratic National Committee computer server.
I dont care about politics, but I do care about corruption. And this whole thing is about corruption, Trump told reporters earlier this month when discussing the Ukraine issue. This whole thing this whole thing is about corruption.
Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2019/10/23/trump-administration-sought-billions-dollars-cuts-programs-aimed-fighting-corruption-ukraine-abroad/
The hypocrisy is immeasurable at this point.
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Trump administration sought cuts to programs aimed at fighting corruption in Ukraine (Original Post)
Mike 03
Oct 2019
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Mike 03
(16,616 posts)1. A little more:
For example, the administration sought to cut a program called International Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement. Among the goals of the program, as described in White House budget documents, is helping U.S. partners address threats to U.S. interests by building resilience and promoting reform in the justice and law enforcement sectors through support to new institutions and specialized offices, such as Ukraines National Anti-Corruption Bureau and Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutors Office.
Midnightwalk
(3,131 posts)2. Try Reading it differently
Try reading that paragraph as a confession.
It works remarkably well. Every thing he does has corruption at its core.