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On the recordDecember 8, 2019
What the President did care about was a political favor from the Ukrainian Government, and that is why he withheld the military aid, true?
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Hakeem Jeffries
Democratic · New York

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Jeffries asserts that Trump's motive for withholding aid was to obtain a political favor.

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