trump said that, you know, unless and until he did that, congressionally approved u.s. military aid to ukraine would be put on ice. it would not come through until zelensky did what trump needed in 2020. in making this extortionate play against the ukrainian president, vladimir zelensky, trump refused to grant him something he was desperately seeking at the time, which was a meeting at the white house. obviously ukraine was at war with russia, both then and now. it was desperately important to ukraine they get u.s. aid and the whole world could see that the united states of america was on ukraine's side and standing with ukraine in their conflict with russia, trump held all that back and said, no, no, no, not unless you help me in my domestic re-election campaign by