and trump was, apparently, worried about losing the presidency in the weeks after that meeting but not because of the putin debacle. this was the headline at axios right after the putin summit. quote, trump fears biden 2020, losing pennsylvania. now, again, this was july of 2018. joe biden would not enter the race for another nine months. donald trump was spooked just by the idea, the idea, of a head-to-head match with joe biden in 2020. the month before joe biden announced he was running, donald trump convened a meeting at the white house to discuss, with his advisers, whether or not he should be concerned about facing biden in the general election. people inside the white house said trump was fixated on biden, before he even entered the race and on what he could do to stop him from becoming the democratic nominee. and, of course, we know how that fixation, ultimately, manifested itself. on july 25th, 2019, one year, to the day, after that first-press
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we have never seen before that pertains directly to the case against the president. late on friday, the friday before christmas, the justice department produced nearly 150 pages of e malls between the white house and the ent gone regarding u.s. military aid to ukraine. the trump administration had been court ordered to hand the emails over to the center for public integrity, a nonprofit news organization, under a freedom of information act request. although the justice department heavily redacted the emails it handed over, the documents still managed to contain a few tiny bombshells. for instance, here s an email from the white house budget office to the pentagon ordering them to suspend military aid to ukraine. it was sent at 11:04 a.m. on july 25th. that email was sent just 90 minutes after president trump finished his infamous phone call
bombshells. for instance, here s an email from the white house budget office to the pentagon ordering them to suspend military aid to ukraine. it was sent at 11:04 a.m. on july 25th. that email was sent just 90 minutes after president trump finished his infamous phone call with ukraine s president that morning. the phone call in which ukraine s president brought up military aid and trump said, quote, i would like you to do us a favor, though. announcing investigations that would political benefit trump, including one into joe biden. so trump and the ukrainian president have their phone call in which trump appears to condition military aid on a political favor. 90 minutes later, a trump political appointee at the white house budget office emails the pentagon ordering them to
look, since you realize through testimony of fact witness that aid was withheld in july, earlier and in june, what happened 90 minutes after the call isn t that relevant and you re sort of cherrypicking what you want to for out of michael duffey s e-mail. that having been said, it does add some credibility at least to the argument na nancy pelosi wants to make, not only do we need to hear from these fact witnesses, but we also don t know what else could come out because the white house had withheld this information, it only came out in a friday night news dump through the foy ya act, and so while it may not be that nancy pelosi can withhold not transmitting the articles of impeachment for much longer it does give some credibility and understanding as to what can happen if they continue to withhold it. new information seems to come out on a daily basis. whether or not that resonates with republicans, of course, is a key question. let s read some of the e-mails. on july 25th, 90 minut