President Trump praises the 'honorable' Rob Portman for corroborating his Ukraine aid story
In defending his decision to withhold Ukrainian aid on Wednesday, President Donald Trump brought to light a behind-the-scenes disagreement with a member of his own party: Republican Sen. Rob Portman.
“He called up: ‘Please let the money go.’ I said ‘Rob, I hate being the country that's always giving money,’” Trump said. “He said, ‘You know what? But it's important … I gave the money because Rob Portman and others called me and asked. But I don't like to be the sucker and European countries are helped far more than we are.”
Yet Portman hasn’t entirely defended Trump’s defense of his phone call with Zelensky, even though the Republican senator strongly disagrees with House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry. Trump has said his call with Zelensky was “perfect” but Portman said it would have been preferable to have left Biden out of it.
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