As senior security officials tried to get a meeting with President Trump to convince him to release military aid to Ukraine, the Trump admin.'s attention was elsewhere: Greenland.
, which took place last month, Bill Taylor said that it was his"clear understanding" that security assistance money for Ukraine would be withheld until the country’s president committed to investigating the son of Trump's political rival Joe Biden.
But buried among allegations of the White House's attempted quid pro quo with Ukraine, was a reference to an earlier diplomatic row, involving the world’s biggest island. In his testimony, Taylor was asked about his remark that secretaries of defense and state, the CIA director and the national security advisor sought a joint meeting with President Trump to change his mind on withholding military aid from Ukraine, but such a meeting was “hard to schedule.”
He pointed out that it was due to a scheduling issue, but also the president’s keen interest in buying Greenland from Denmark.Sign Up
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