Trump's envoy to Ukraine resigns amid fallout from whistleblower complaint
On Thursday, a whistleblower complaint from within the intelligence community became public, and in it Volker was described as trying to "contain the damage" from efforts by Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani to press Ukraine to investigate Democrats.
One of the sources who spoke to NBC News said that stepping down as special representative will allow Volker to be freer in what he can say should he be called to testify before Congress about the Trump administration and Ukraine. That source said Volker has emphasized to his colleagues at his other ventures outside the government that he was trying to build a firewall between his government work and his other work, in order to protect the latter.Congressional Democrats are conducting an impeachment investigation of Trump and have
relating to a July 25 phone call in which Trump encouraged Ukraine's president to investigate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son.
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