2nd, OMB didn't have the guts to rely on this argument after the fact. Months later, when OMB issue a post hoc justification for the hold on Ukraine aid, this argument is nowhere to be found. OMB instead relied on a different (also unavailing) argument. /3 https://t.co/SVteJQYeQX— Joshua A. Geltzer (@jgeltzer) December 30, 2019
What this all adds up to is a legal argument that doesn't just look absurd now that @EricLiptonNYT @maggieNYT & @MarkMazzettiNYT have uncovered it.— Joshua A. Geltzer (@jgeltzer) December 30, 2019
It's a legal argument that was absurd for OMB to be pushing at the time--and OMB itself knew it then, just as it knows it now. /END