It's not within Trumps power to withhold aid. The problem is he's over stepping his bounds as president. The are certain legal code guidelines for how to do this, getting more people involved so that presidents don't have too much power and abuse that power. It has to go through a process before its decided to withhold aid. Trump is not honoring the laws he vowed to withhold and not respecting what our founding fathers and us the people that make these laws. That is not a very patriotic thing to do and its basically giving kings power to a country that's suppose limit power of a single person, and all of us are suppose to be the ones involved in the decision making process.
He was in his right to negotiate directly with the Ukraine and to set conditions and temporarily withhold the aid. It's done a lot. Yes, he didn't follow protocol and do it like it's normally done, but there's no law stating he has to follow proper procedures. The aid was eventually delivered after additional negotiations took place. Other then Trump not following protocol (which isn't illegal) this sort of thing happens all of the time. We just don't hand out money without certain requirements and those requirements sometimes need to be renegotiated and aid often does get held up. Sometimes it's not even delivered at all.
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