A midnight court filing by the Department of Justice reveals emails that detail President Trump’s decision to withhold military aid from Ukraine.
The Justice Department revealed in a midnight court filing that two dozen emails shielded from Congress detail President Donald Trump’s decision to withhold military aid from Ukraine — an acknowledgment Democrats said further vindicates their unsuccessful push to subpoena those documents in the Senate impeachment trial.contains the most detailed description to date of the documents the Trump administration continues to withhold from congressional investigators.
“Every single Republican senator voted to endorse the White House cover-up of these potentially important truth-revealing emails,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a statement. “Make no mistake, the full truth will eventually come out and Republicans will have to answer for why they were so determined to enable the president to hide it.”
In the meantime, Democrats have warned that new information will continue to emerge — including details from former national security adviser John Bolton’s forthcoming book. Democrats’ efforts to subpoena Bolton during the trial failed, mostly on party lines. It’s unlikely that the Center for Public Integrity will be able to overcome the Trump administration's privilege claims. At a federal court hearing in an unrelated matter on Thursday, Judge Randolph Moss highlighted the unusual fact that private organizations can use the Freedom of Information Act to obtain information even faster than it could get to Congress.
Trump’s defense lawyers have said the aid was put on hold because the president had concerns about corruption within Ukraine’s government, and because he wanted other countries to share the burden of providing lethal military aid to a nation trying to fend off Russian aggression to its east.
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