President Trump instructed acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney to place a hold on nearly $400 million in military aid to Ukraine shortly before a phone call in which he allegedly tried to persuade the nation’s president to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, the Washington Post reported Monday.
One senior official told the Post that Trump held back the aid over concerns about corruption in the Ukrainian government and that it was released in advance with the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30.
The official denied the motivation was to pressure Zelensky to investigate the Bidens, telling the Post “it had nothing to do with a quid pro quo.”
Read more at The Hill.
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