House Democrat calls State Department IG's closed-door briefing a relaying of Ukraine 'conspiracy theories.'
After a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill Thursday with members and staffs of various congressional committees and the State Department's inspector general, one Democrat lawmaker in attendance said the Ukraine-related documents the IG provided were, at first glance, full of"conspiracy theories."
A separate Democratic source told ABC News based on the information they were presented, the documents appeared to be sent from the White House and to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the State Department, and that it contained a bunch of Trump hotel folders with notes from interviews that took place at the offices of President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, with various Ukrainians.
“We understand that the Department’s Inspector General has provided relevant Congressional Committees materials relating to Ukraine. The State Department can confirm that these materials were provided by the Department to the Inspector General on May 3, 2019 for his review and for such action as the Inspector General deemed appropriate. We refer any further questions relating to these materials to the Inspector General,” a State Department spokesperson said in a statement.
In a deluge of press interviews over the past week, Giuliani has said he was merely doing the State Department’s bidding in reaching out to Ukrainians.
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