Withholding security assistance to Ukraine “for no good reason, other than help with a political campaign, made no sense,” Ambassador Taylor said today during the House impeachment hearing. “It was illogical, it could not be explained, it was crazy.”
President Trump's top envoy to Ukraine, William Taylor, reveals new details about a phone call that happened a day after the president's July 25 call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
Bill Taylor, acting U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, center, arrives for a House Intelligence Committee impeachment inquiry hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2019.WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's top envoy to Ukraine, William Taylor, revealed new details Wednesday about a phone call that happened a day after the president spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, which led to House Democrats' impeachment inquiry.
"Last Friday, a member of my staff told me of events that occurred on July 26," Taylor testified on Day 1 of the public hearings on impeachment. During that part of July, Taylor said he had been visiting the front lines of fighting between Ukrainian soldiers and Russian backed separatists in eastern Ukraine.
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