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The administration’s Ukraine pressure operation was no longer just a whispered grievance among insiders. By September 17, the withheld aid, the presidential interest in investigations that could benefit him politically, and the widening internal scramble were all becoming harder to dismiss as routine diplomacy.
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The administration’s Ukraine pressure operation was no longer just a whispered grievance among insiders. By September 17, the withheld aid, the presidential interest in investigations that could benefit him politically, and the widening internal scramble were all becoming harder to dismiss as routine diplomacy.
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The administration’s Ukraine pressure operation was no longer just a whispered grievance among insiders. By September 17, the withheld aid, the presidential interest in investigations that could benefit him politically, and the widening internal scramble were all becoming harder to dismiss as routine diplomacy.
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