.MaddowBlog: Why two White House officials resigned over Pres. Trump’s Ukraine scheme.
Close video The Rachel Maddow Show, 11/26/19, 9:04 PM ET Transcript shows OMB resignations over Trump hold on Ukraine aid Rachel Maddow reports on the newly released transcript of the deposition of Mark Sandy, the only OMB official to testify in the Trump impeachment inquiry, in which we learn that two OMB officials resigned over Donald Trump’s hold on Ukraine aid, and it is share tweet email save Embed The leverage part of Donald Trump’s Ukraine scandal has already come into sharp focus.
Mark Sandy, a career staffer in the White House Office of Management and Budget, told impeachment investigators that two budget staffers left the agency after expressing frustrations about the unexplained hold on Ukrainian aid, according to new closed-door transcripts released Tuesday. In other words, Congress appropriated military aid for Ukraine, which obligated the Trump administration to disperse those funds. Except in this case, Trump didn’t – because he wanted to use those funds to extort officials in Kyiv.
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