Chris Stewart: When You Read the Transcript of the Call, It’s Clear Trump Is Withholding Aid to Pressure the Europeans

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STEWART: “When you read the transcript of what the president says, he’s very clear the reason he’s withholding aid is because he wants to pressure the Europeans, particularly Mr. — Ms. Merkel in Germany, that they have been dragging their feet for months on this. And, by the way, we heard as early as late spring that they were probably going to withhold this aid. We had been hearing, those of us who work in national security, they were going to do that to pressure the Europeans. This is just an example of, hey, let’s go sneak some stuff out there and let the press run with it for a while and eventually the transcript will show that it’s not true, but by then we’ll already have done our damage. It’s malicious for them to — to — to leak like this and to not do it fairly."