Current and former U.S. officials — several of them experienced diplomats accustomed to documenting almost everything — left a trail of clues for investigators to follow in the impeachment probe
They showed up, offered prepared remarks and answered hours of questions to lay out their side of the Ukraine-related impeachment inquiry now engulfing President Donald Trump.
According to Taylor’s opening statement, he learned of the directive while participating in a July 18 National Security Council secure video-conference call. A person Taylor described as a staff member of the Office of Management and Budget mentioned it. Taylor said that on Aug. 29, before he’d personally realized that the U.S. aid to Ukraine might have been frozen to help Trump’s political ambitions, he sent a cable to Pompeo conveying his concern about withholding the aid. Pompeo did not respond, Taylor said.
Former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch. | Mikhail Palinchak, Presidential Press Service Pool Photo via AP Prior to Zelensky joining, there were cryptic mentions of Trump’s desire to see Ukrainian investigations. Among those mentioning them was Kurt Volker, at the time the U.S. special envoy for Ukraine negotiations. Taylor said he “reported on this call” to Deputy Assistant Secretary of State George Kent and also wrote a “memo for the record” dated June 30 summarizing the conversation with Zelensky.
Giuliani was part of what Hill and Taylor depicted as a shadow foreign policy aimed at pressuring Ukraine to investigate the Bidens; Trump directed some of his diplomats to deal with Giuliani on aspects of U.S. policy toward Ukraine, according to the testimonies, and according to anBecause Giuliani is not a U.S. government official, communications with him by U.S.
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