“And then everybody called me, ‘Oh please, can we pay it?’ “ “So I said, ‘Hold it up, let’s get other people to pay,’ ” Trump said. Then people called me and said, ‘Oh, let it go,’ and I let it go,” Trump told reporters at the United Nations.ĭuring a meeting later Tuesday morning with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Trump said he spoke with acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, Vice President Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross about the aid and questioned why European nations weren’t doing more. I think it’s unfair that we put up the money. In a text, he denied that there was a “quid pro quo,” linking assistance to Ukraine to whether Zelenskiy agreed to investigate the Bidens.President Trump on Tuesday confirmed that he withheld funds from Ukraine amid growing furor over his interactions with the country, arguing he did so because he wanted European nations to contribute more to the cause. Sondland responded that he believed Taylor was wrong about Trump’s intentions, saying Trump had wanted to withhold the aid over concerns about corruption in Ukraine. “I think it’s crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign,” Taylor said in another text. “With the hold (the delay in delivering the military aid), we have already shaken their faith in us,” Taylor said in a text message to Gordon Sondland, the U.S. chargé d’affaires in the Ukrainian capital, discussed the importance of the message Washington was sending to Kiev. 9, after news that the Trump administration had been withholding military assistance for Kiev, William Taylor, the U.S. President Donald Trump's former envoy to Ukraine, arrives to be interviewed by staff for three House of Representatives committees as part of the impeachment inquiry into the president's dealings with Ukraine, at the U.S.
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