Breaking: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is being subpoenaed for documents related to Trump's interactions with the Ukrainian president as part of its impeachment inquiry.
Democrats hit the gas on their impeachment inquiry Friday, subpoenaing Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for documents they demanded weeks earlier that describe a pattern of interactions between President Donald Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and senior Ukrainian officials who they pressured to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden.
Rep Eliot Engel , chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the subpoena in consultation with House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff and House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings, who have been probing Trump's solicitation of foreign help in the 2020 election."The subpoenaed documents shall be part of the impeachment inquiry and shared among the Committees.
Democrats intend to depose former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch — who was removed by Trump and criticized by the president in the call with Zelensky — U.S. ambassador Kurt Volker, who facilitated some of Giuliani's contacts with Ukrainian officials; deputy assistant secretary George Kent, Counselor T. Ulrich Brechbuhl and Ambassador Gordon Sondland. The depositions are set to take place between Oct. 2 and Oct. 10, while Congress is out on a two-week recess.
Democrats had been exploring Trump and Giuliani's posture toward Ukraine since June but sounded the alarm in early September, when the three chairmen launched a probe related to Giuliani and Trump's suggestion that Biden be investigated for his role in the ouster of a Ukrainian prosecutor who was seen by the international community as corrupt.
In a Sept. 9 letter to Pompeo, the Democrats asked for any State Department correspondence related to Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort — whose business dealings in Ukraine helped land him in prison last year — records of Trump's July 25 call with Zelensky, a list of officials with knowledge of the call, records related to Giuliani and records related to an unexpected decision to suspend military aid to Ukraine, just days before Trump spoke to Zelensky about Biden.
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