Doyle McManus: Trump smears Biden, but it won't make Ukraine mess go away
by Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times
Sep 25, 2019
3 minutes
President Donald Trump sounds like a man whose story is unraveling.
On Sunday, Trump insisted he never blocked nearly $400 million in U.S. aid to Ukraine that a bipartisan majority in Congress had approved to help Kiev counter aggression from neighboring Russia.
"I didn't delay anything," he told reporters at the White House.
On Tuesday, after the Washington Post reported that Trump had ordered White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney to withhold the aid, the president changed course: Yes, he said, I delayed it and I'm
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