In the United States, they are thinking about the reasons for Trump freezing financial assistance to Ukraine
President of the United States Donald Trump instructed the acting head of the White House administration to freeze over $ 391 million of aid to Ukraine a few days before telephone calls with Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky. This was reported by the NYT publication with reference to two senior US officials.
Trump's directive was brought to the attention of the Pentagon and the State Department, which only said that the administration was considering whether the costs were necessary.
Biden may have been implicated in the resignation of the prosecutor general of Ukraine
Trump's eventual blocking of Ukraine’s aid package has sparked fierce debate in the United States. The Washington Post claims that the reason for this pressure on Kiev is the investigation that the American president initiated against former United States vice president of Barack Obama’s administration, Joe Biden and his son Hunter. It is assumed that one of Donald Trump’s main competitors in the upcoming presidential election could be connected with corruption in Ukraine. The New York Times, usually in opposition to the current president, calls the investigation "unfounded."
The essence of the accusations lies in the fact that, when he was vice president, Biden, among other things, was a curator in Ukraine. At the same time, his son Hunter Biden served on the board of directors of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma.
For his part, the American president admitted that he mentioned Joe Biden in a conversation with Zelensky. According to NYT, people familiar with the content of the call claim that Donald Trump repeatedly called on the Ukrainian president to speak with his personal lawyer, Rudolf Giuliani, one of the most trusted representatives of the current US leader. According to the publication, Giuliani has repeatedly pushed Kiev to investigate Biden’s activities in Ukraine.
Trump threatened with impeachment for the investigation
Trump has denied allegations that he delayed help to Kiev in an attempt to force Zelensky to comply with his request. The President also continued to insist that he acted appropriately.
Donald Trump told reporters when asked if he agreed to help with a promise to investigate corruption allegations against the former vice president and his son. But shortly before, the president suggested that there would be nothing wrong with linking Ukraine’s funding to an investigation into corruption against Biden and his family. In particular, Trump voiced the assumption that the dismissal of Prosecutor General of Ukraine Viktor Shokin at the time was connected with the corruption case against Biden: he may have frozen aid for billions of dollars in order to achieve the resignation of the Ukrainian. The American president hopes that he will justify the transcript of a telephone conversation. This text has not been published yet.
Against the background of these events in the House of Representatives, which is fully controlled by the US Democratic Party, another bill is being put forward on impeachment of the current president. This proposal has already been made by 7 senior Democrats.
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