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On the recordOctober 15, 2019
holding that up and threatening not to provide it in exchange for a favor, as the President described it in the phone call, is the worst kind of leverage you can imagine for a new president.
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David Cicilline
Democratic · Rhode Island

Editor's note · Context

Cicilline criticizes the President's use of military aid as leverage.

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