The White House's Reconstructed Transcript of a Phone Conversation With a Ukranian Leader - A Conversation That Was Wildly Appropriate to Be Bringing Up Ukraine's Security Crisis

In july two thousand 19 trump ordered that a hold be placed on nearly 400 million dollars in security assistance to ukraine. Cupperman told me, everyone in the inter agency process was uniformly united to release the aid. But it got held up anyway. News of the frieze became public that september and the white house variously claimed that the funds had been withheld because of ukraine's corruption. The president stood essentially alone in his opposition to such assistance.