Democrats call out McConnell over "rigged" trial as unredacted Ukraine documents implicate Trump

[jpak]

Source: Salon

Democrats slammed the push from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., for a trial with no witnesses after a cache of internal administration documents directly implicated President Donald Trump in ordering a freeze on aid to Ukraine, which administration officials worried was illegal.

The documents, reviewed by Just Security, a national security outlet based at the Reiss Center on Law and Security at the New York University School of Law, revealed that Pentagon officials were concerned the aid freeze violated federal law.

An email reviewed by the outlet shows Michael Duffey, the associate director of national security programs at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), informing acting Pentagon budget chief Elaine McCusker that Trump ordered the aid to be frozen.

“Clear direction from POTUS to continue to hold,” he wrote.

The emails were previously released in redacted form to the Center for Public Integrity. They showed that Duffey first ordered the aid to be frozen about 90 minutes after Trump’s infamous July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The emails also showed Duffey asking McCusker to keep the the freeze quiet.

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Read more: https://www.salon.com/2020/01/03/democrats-call-out-mcconnell-over-rigged-trial-as-unredacted-ukraine-documents-implicate-trump/

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[dchill]

1. Well, everybody knows "he can't be investigated."

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Unprecedented in my lifetime that the Speaker has

the moral and political authority, an intangible commodity, to call out the Senate Majority Leader for his partisanship and chicanery.

And Speaker Pelosi is pulling it off in style!

[duforsure]

3. Moscow Mitch admitted publicly

He conspired to obstruct justice.

[cstanleytech]

4. Well it's Moscow Mitch's job to protect Putin assets isn't it?

[riversedge]

5. Keep up the pressure Dems. thank you

[riversedge]

6. "Clear direction from POTUS to continue to hold," he wrote.

[Dawn Oday]

7. Pride in Kentucky

How can anyone be proud to be a Kentuckian with Mitch representing them?????????? I just don't see it.

[fleabiscuit]

8. I can't figure out how he keeps being reelected. Welcome to the DU.