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The press release of an email from a White House official suggests Democrats have a new element against Donald Trump in his impeachment procedure.
In the United States, the Democrats believe they have obtained a new charge against Donald Trump in the impeachment procedure which targets the American president. Michael Duffey, an official with the White House Office of Management and Budget, asked the Pentagon to " suspend " the payment of US military aid to Ukraine.
1h30 after the Trump-Zelensky call
This information comes from an email, sent by Michael Duffey on July 25, 2019 at 11:04 a.m. and therefore only an hour and a half after the now famous phone call between President Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky. The email was obtained by the Center for Public Integrity , a group of investigative journalists, and published on Sunday, December 22.
In his email, Michael Duffey explains to Pentagon officials that President Trump has a personal interest in U.S. military aid for Ukraine and that he has ordered its suspension . " Given the sensitive nature of the request, I would be grateful if you would only inform the people necessary to execute it, " writes the White House budget officer.
These new revelations are causing a stir in the ranks of the Democratic camp which sees there a new potentially explosive element for the dismissal procedure which targets Donald Trump. " If there's nothing wrong with withholding funds, why did Michael Duffey want no one to know what he had done ?" Asks Chuck Schumer, leader of the Democratic minority in the Senate.
If there is nothing wrong with withholding the aid, why didn't Michael Duffey want anyone to know about what he was doing?
If the call was so perfect, why is the email so “sensitive” that it should be kept hush-hush?
What are they afraid of? pic.twitter.com/TYDLKB3SYG
He then added : " The emails published this weekend demonstrate the importance of hearing White House officials during the president's trial ."
The Republicans on their side, majority in the Senate and always united behind the tenant of the White House, do not hear it that way. Like the Republican senator Ron Johnson who believes that the email of Michael Duffey " brings nothing new " in the case against Donald Trump.
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