Oct. 3, 2019
By Joni Ashbrook
The rough transcript of a phone call between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky clearly shows Trump leveraging military aid to pressure Zelensky into investigating Trump’s political rival Joe Biden. Yet, shamefully, Republican lawmakers choose to defend Trump rather than our Constitution.
A week before the call, Trump personally suspended almost $400 million in desperately needed military aid that Congress had authorized for Ukraine, and his reason for doing it has changed twice. In doing so, Trump may have violated the Constitution by overriding an act of Congress.
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