So if you're a foreign leader, what do you take from this phone call?
1. $400,000,000 in aid was frozen
2. The White House hold on the funds incensed lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, including Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), one of Trump’s top allies and a member of the Senate Foreign Relations and Appropriations committees.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/12/trump-administration-ukraine-military-aid-3825755
3. Phone call asking for help investigating your political opponent;
4. $250,000,000 in aid frees up after phone call a couple of weeks later.
5. Aid was unilaterally frozen by Trump and was not supported by the GOP.
6. Aid is not just some beer money.
“This aid is critically important,” said Volodymyr Horbulin, a former head of the National Defense and Security Council. “If it hadn’t been granted, we’d have been left alone, face-to-face with Russia.”