Trump administration reveals it's blocking dozens of emails about Ukraine aid freeze

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: CNN

The Department of Justice revealed in a court filing late Friday that it has two dozen emails related to the President Donald Trump's involvement in the withholding of millions in security assistance to Ukraine -- a disclosure that came just hours after the Senate voted against subpoenaing additional documents and witnesses in Trump's impeachment trial, paving the way for his acquittal.

The filing, released near midnight Friday, marks the first official acknowledgment from the Trump administration that emails about the President's thinking related to the aid exist, and that he was directly involved in asking about and deciding on the aid as early as June. The administration is still blocking those emails from the public and has successfully kept them from Congress.

A lawyer with the Office of Management and Budget wrote to the court that 24 emails between June and September 2019 -- including an internal discussion among DOD officials called "POTUS follow-up" on June 24 -- should stay confidential because the emails describe "communications by either the President, the Vice President, or the President's immediate advisors regarding Presidential decision-making about the scope, duration, and purpose of the hold on military assistance to Ukraine."

Trump's decision to withhold nearly $400 million in US military aid to Ukraine as he pressed the country to investigate Hunter Biden and Joe Biden, his potential 2020 general election rival, are at the center of the President's impeachment trial. Trump and his allies have repeatedly made unfounded and false claims to allege that the Bidens acted corruptly in Ukraine.

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[secondwind]

1. The criminal behavior is in every Department..... ugh

[dchill]

2. And condoned by the GOP Senators.

[Evolve Dammit]

3. It's a wrap. Here 'ya go Vlad. It's all yours now. Open to all oligarchs wishing to cash in.

Traitors. All of them.

[crickets]

4. The timing on the DOJ's release was no accident.

Last minute, after the vote was over.

[olddad65]

5. Because they have nothing to hide.

[underpants]

6. Scum bags.

[in2herbs]

7. Via back channels, maybe the two parties could negotiate trump leaving office with the

promise he won't be charged with state (non-federal) crimes. I'd rather have him out of office NOW than dying during the litigation on state crimes. To get the Rs to agree we could make the same promise to them -- if they promise not to run for re-election.

Every time I hear that the Rs in the Senate are hiding the corruption of the traitor I want to scream that every R in the Senate is just as much a corrupt traitor as trump.

[keithbvadu2]

8. No witnesses/documents at Senate trial - lies by omission

No witnesses/documents at Senate trial - lies by omission

https://parade.com/86289/marilynvossavant/telling-the-truth-02/

Telling the Truth
September 2, 2009 - 9:15 AM - 0 Comments

Here’s the original question and answer, abbreviated:

Ed Hausafus of Eagle Creek, Oregon, writes:

Marilyn: When swearing in witnesses, court clerks ask them to promise to tell “the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.” What is the difference between the three? And if there is none, why don’t they just ask witnesses to promise to be truthful?

Marilyn responds:

There’s a difference. And the truths are all stated explicitly because some people try to weasel out of promises while still insisting that they’ve kept them. First, witnesses are asked to tell “the truth.” This means that they must not lie in response to a question.

Second, they’re asked to tell “the whole truth.” This means something else. For example, if a governor says that “in my state, we’ve moved 17,000 people from welfare to work” and omits adding the fact that in his state, 25,000 other people moved from work to welfare at the same time, he has told “the truth” but he hasn’t told “the whole truth.” That is, the net effect was that 8,000 more people were on welfare, not 17,000 fewer.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

9. They'll release bad information about Trump now, as far away from the election as possible.

That will give Trump and his minions the maximum amount of time to repeatedly use propaganda to confuse the public as to whether the new facts are real (which they are) or another hoax like the impeachment was.

[olddad65]

10. Maybe the House of Reps can pass a resolution to change the name to.

The Department of Injustice.

[sakabatou]

11. Clear case of obstruction of justice