Ukraine Aid Was Reportedly Released By State Department Earlier Than Trump Accounts

THE IMPEACHMENT SAGA

Olivia Messer

Published Nov. 09, 2019 3:29PM EST

REUTERS/Tom Brenner

Though President Trump has said that he freed monetary aid for Ukraine on Sept. 11, Bloomberg reports that the State Department actually authorized the $141 million payment several days earlier. The decision by the State Department came from a legal finding conveyed in a classified memorandum that was sent to Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, which reportedly found that the president had no legal standing to block the Ukraine aid, according to Bloomberg’s five sources. Witnesses have told Congress that Trump ordered the money halted in order to force Ukraine’s president to publicly announce he was probing former Vice President Joe Biden’s son. That allegation has formed the basis of the ongoing impeachment inquiry.

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Ukraine Aid Was Reportedly Released By State Department Earlier Than Trump Accounts

Olivia Messer

REUTERS/Tom Brenner