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Mystery grows over Trump administration hold on Lebanon aid

https://apnews.com/4bae0513e28647c59b74bcf51f7550a5 

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is withholding more than $100 million in U.S. military assistance to Lebanon that has been approved by Congress and is favored by his national security team, an assertion of executive control of foreign aid that is similar to the delay in support for Ukraine at the center of the impeachment inquiry.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday congratulated Lebanon as the country marked its independence day but made no mention of the hold-up in aid that State Department and Pentagon officials have complained about for weeks. 

It came up in impeachment testimony by David Hale, the No. 3 official in the State Department, according to the transcript of the closed-door hearing released this week. He described growing consternation among diplomats as the administration would neither release the aid nor provide an explanation for the hold. 

“People started asking: What’s the problem?” Hale told the impeachment investigators. 
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2 minutes ago, racer254 said:

Unbelievable.  Let me get this straight, you are now complaining that he is NOT giving away American taxpayer money to foreign countries?

Yes, Do not waste time trying to make sense of it. You cant.

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1 minute ago, Zambroski said:

I see the Dem mother ship, after two weeks of straight fail, is pushing out orders of narrative HARD for their minions to distribute.  I just laugh.

I’d say the better question is asking why and the fuck are we giving Lebanon 100 million dollars. :dunno: 

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Just now, Edmo said:

I’d say the better question is asking why and the fuck are we giving Lebanon 100 million dollars. :dunno: 

That's the "better question" on all this shit to me.  WTF?  Second question is, why is it perceived by these grantees that that money shouldn't have any strings attached?  WTF!?!?!??!?!?!!?

One thing Trump said that resonated is that the world looks at the US as a big piggy bank.  He was right on with that statement and the anger from the countries towards him for saying it told us all we needed to know.  Time to end this shit.

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18 minutes ago, Pete said:

sure

what ever you want to believe..

:lol2:

The aid had been held up without reason...not a hoax. The questions of why we are giving aid to Lebanon or should we are separate matters.

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1 minute ago, Jimmy Snacks said:

The aid had been held up without reason...not a hoax. The questions of why we are giving aid to Lebanon or should we are separate matters.

Not really a separate matter as this is the only way America gets to see and talk about these five seats to foreign countries.  Witholding aid has been a very effective tool for Trump and the American taxpayer on questioning the giving of aid.

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Just now, BOHICA said:

Not really a separate matter as this is the only way America gets to see and talk about these five seats to foreign countries.  Witholding aid has been a very effective tool for Trump and the American taxpayer on questioning the giving of aid.

So you admit he is withholding aid...tell dopo as he thinks it’s a hoax.

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7 minutes ago, Jimmy Snacks said:

The aid had been held up without reason...not a hoax. The questions of why we are giving aid to Lebanon or should we are separate matters.

Not necessarily, its possible it "could be" held up for a review of JUST THAT,   why?   what if the funds arent going to anything we agreed on prior to granting them aid?  it should be halted.

and we dont know if "HE" is doing the/any withholding do we.

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2 minutes ago, Jimmy Snacks said:

So you admit he is withholding aid...tell dopo as he thinks it’s a hoax.

Over course is being withheld but not for the reasons that democrats state.   With each of these “witholding” aid things the better it is for Trump.  It gets the debate going which benefits Trump

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2 minutes ago, old indy said:

Not necessarily, its possible it "could be" held up for a review of JUST THAT,   why?   what if the funds arent going to anything we agreed on prior to granting them aid?  it should be halted.

and we dont know if "HE" is doing the/any withholding do we.

Nobody knows because there is no transparency as to where and why when it comes to our tax dollars.

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Just now, BOHICA said:

Over course is being withheld but not for the reasons that democrats state.   With each of these “witholding” aid things the better it is for Trump.  It gets the debate going which benefits Trump

What reasons did Dems give?

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