"Did you order the Code Red?"
The GOP Knows Damn Well That Donald Trump Ordered That Code Red
Let's cut to the chase, shall we? Donald Trump has been using American tax dollars to extort the Ukrainian government into ginning up charges against Joe Biden, and congressional Republicans have known about it for months. And they only dropped the hammer and made Trump hand over the funds to Ukraine when it was already clear that the whistleblower complaint was coming down the pike. Which we at Wonkette knew because it only took us five minutes after the news of the whistleblower complaint hit the news to work out that it had to be about Ukraine. And if we figured it out, there is no way on God's green earth that members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, who were negotiating daily with the White House to get the Ukrainian allocation unblocked while watching Rudy Giuliani spin his bullshit about Joe Biden, didn't put those pieces together for themselves.
THEY KNEW. THE GOP HAS ALWAYS KNOWN.
But let's back up for a second. Last night, The Washington Post reported and the Wall Street Journal confirmed that Donald Trump himself ordered the freeze of congressionally allocated funds for Ukraine just one week before that phone call where he requested eight separate times that Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Zelenskiy open a sham investigation of Joe Biden and his son. Which means Trump had personally started putting the squeeze on Ukraine before he made the big ask on July 25. Because That Idiot would take a shit on the Oval Office carpet and sign his name on it with a Sharpie to ensure he got credit for it.
As with so much White House fuckery, Trump's trusty henchman Mick Mulvaney set the wheels in motion. On July 18, the Office of Management and Budget, headed by Mulvaney, told the Pentagon and the State Department that the funds allocated by Congress for Ukraine were being frozen because the president had "concerns." Except, as the Post reports, the White House made darn sure not to tell them what those "concerns" were -- which is how you know they were trying to cover their tracks.
Administration officials were instructed to tell lawmakers that the delays were part of an "interagency process" but to give them no additional information — a pattern that continued for nearly two months, until the White House released the funds on the night of Sept. 11.
This is a BFD. Donald Trump held up the $500 million allocation for Ukrainian weapons systems, maritime defense, and coordination with NATO, and then took steps to hide what he was doing by getting his underlings to lie about it. That's pretty strong circumstantial evidence that he intended to use the money as leverage to get the Ukrainian government to gin up a bogus case against Joe Biden.
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