Another Swamp Lie: GAO says withholding Ukraine aid was illegal

It's obvious that this latest ploy by the GAO is part of a Swamp based attack on Trump since it materialized on the same day that Pelosi finally sent impeachment to the Senate.

Everyone and his brother has known about what Trump did since last summer but magically the GAO stayed silent until the precise day that the Democrats were restarting their war by any means attack on Trump.  Totally a coincidence for sure...not.

But it's also obvious that the GAO statement is a lie.  First Trump didn't withhold money from Ukraine; Ukraine got every penny.

So what the Democrats and the #FakeNews media people are saying is that delaying the money to Ukraine is illegal.  That's clearly wrong since it's very unlikely that the Congress stated not only that X dollars should go to Ukraine but that it should go there on January 7th 2019.  Hence so long as the money got to Ukraine within the fiscal year Congress allocated the money delaying it can't be illegal.

Even worse it's unclear how the Congress's power of the purse interacts with the President's control of foreign policy.  For example say that Iran just killed a bunch of Americans and the President is responding by imposing sanctions but the Democrat run Congress says that the US should give Iran $2 billion.

Would that be a case of Congress overstepping its authority vis a vis foreign policy?  To the best of my knowledge, which isn't encyclopedic, that issue hasn't been resolved by the Supreme Court.

Another example would be if the President asked for say $1 billion for country A and then between the time Congress budgeted the money and the new fiscal year country A had a coup and started executing gays.  Would it be illegal for the President to put a hold on the money?

A related question is given that Congress doesn't specify a date on which the money has to be delivered would it be wrong for the President to use that money as leverage to achieve his foreign policy goals?

For example let's say country A has a long history of killing gays and denying women education.  Would it be illegal for a President to say to country A "well you know I don't know when you're going to get that money but stopping killing gays and letting little girls go to school would probably speed up the process"?

Trump and various individuals with first hand knowledge have repeatedly said that the delay in delivering money to Ukraine wasn't due to any request to investigate Biden but due to Trump's concern about corruption in Ukraine and the fact that European countries weren't doing their fair share to help Ukraine.

So how in the world can we take the GAO report as anything other than part of the coordinated attack on Trump, and his supporters, by the entrenched bureaucrats in the Federal Government?

This is especially obvious since the OMB ruled that what Trump did was perfectly legal.