GAO finds Trumpstein WH broke law re: withholding aid to Ukraine

[midnight rambler]

WTF is really going on in the District of Clowns?? ??? The timing of this is interesting, directly after Project Veritas exposes Burnie's commie staff.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/478557-gao-finds-trump-administration-broke-law-by-withholding-aid-from

[Amanda]

More BS from the Empire of Lies---the knives are out for Trump b/c he dared to campaign on stopping the endless wars and bringing the troops home. The US is no longer a nation state--we are an Empire, and he was taking on the Empire, threatening to dismantle it, and as we can all see, our (((Masters))) will not allow that!! That's what this whole BS-show is all about.

And on the "Government Accountability Office"--what a freaking joke! the entire govt is a criminal operation run by a bunch of psychopaths, but we never hear about that, right?!?!

[Cebu_4_2]

The Trump (https://thehill.com/person/trump) administration’s decision to freeze the release of security assistance to Ukraine violated the law, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in a new report (https://www.gao.gov/products/D21272).
The independent watchdog said in an opinion issued Thursday that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) withheld the appropriated funds last summer not as a programmatic delay but in order to advance the president’s own agenda.

[ziero0]

The ICA controls Congress and not the executive branch. You would think the GAO would know this.

[midnight rambler]

The ICA controls Congress and not the executive branch. You would think the GAO would know this.

Perhaps the GAO is controlled by the War Party/Never Trumpers.

[ziero0]

Suppose?

[JDRock]

giving aid to ANY foreign cty is the definition of a crime.

[keehah]

From the OP Hill article:

“Faithful execution of the law does not permit the President to substitute his own policy priorities for those that Congress has enacted into law,” the report said. “OMB withheld funds for a policy reason, which is not permitted under the Impoundment Control Act (ICA)...Therefore, we conclude that OMB violated the ICA.”

As another commented elsewhere:

"The President is officially on trial in the Senate for asking about the corruption of the previous VP (BIDEN). The lead prosecutor (ADAM SCHIFF) conspired with a CIA asset (WHISLTEBLOWER ERIC CIARAMELLA) to bring the charges and has been shielded from any scrutiny.
The Senate should vote to dismiss this utter perversion of justice."


"I do believe that during the Bush-Cheney administration, that Vice President Cheney set a tone and an attitude for the CIA."-Nancy Pelosi

Not being a criminal is now illegal in DC? :(??