Trump denies telling Bolton Ukraine aid was tied to probe

TIL Desk/World/Washington/ President Donald Trump Monday denied that he told his former national security advisor John Bolton that military aid to Ukraine was tied to Kiev investigating his political rivals. Trump’s tweets came after The New York Times reported Sunday that Bolton alleges as much in a draft of his upcoming book.

“I never told John Bolton that the aid to Ukraine was tied to investigations into Democrats, including the Bidens. In fact, he never complained about this at the time of his very public termination,” Trump tweeted in the early hours of Monday.

“If John Bolton said this, it was only to sell a book.” Citing Bolton’s unpublished manuscript, The Times wrote that Trump told Bolton he wanted to keep frozen USD 391 million in aid to Ukraine until Kiev officials helped with a probe into his Democratic rival Joe Biden.  Trump was impeached last month for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.