The whistleblower has said that Trump in J
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The whistleblower has said that Trump in July had issued an order to suspend the delivery of $250 million in Pentagon aid and $141 million is State Department funds but that the White House had not given an explanation. < >
Bunk. Half of the $250 million was spent by July. Trump did not withhold "nearly $400 million in military aid from Ukraine." He had no unilateral executive mechanism available to cut, defer, or threaten the same. Those mechanisms change "budget authority." Doing so without congressional approval is unconstitutional. Trump knows this, because the GAO informed him back on September 10, 2018.
This is how they do it, folks. Hysteria begins from an anonymous whistle leaker with bogus facts that drive the narrative, until the story takes on a life of its own, and it's too late to put the genie back in the bottle.
The nation is simply not aware that half of the security aid had already been spent by July. We certainly haven't been told this truth by the talking heads, legal experts, senators, representatives, or White House staff. It's a national disgrace.