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New York Times: Trump said to have frozen aid to Ukraine before call with Zelensky

By New York Times.

Published Sept. 24, 2019. Updated Sept. 24 at 10:08 am

US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting in the Oval Office with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison at the White House in Washington, DC, Sept. 20, 2019.

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President Trump personally ordered his staff to freeze more than $391 million in aid to Ukraine in the days before he pressed the new Ukrainian president to investigate the Democrats’ leading presidential candidate, two senior administration officials said Sept. 24.