Asked whether she had ever heard a call like Trump’s July 25 conversation with Zelensky, in which Trump asked Zelensky to look into the Bidens, Fiona Hill invoked executive privilege
Hill, in her opening statement, went after Republican lawmakers for pushing a "fictional narrative" about Ukrainian interference in the 2016 presidential election, adding that such claims embolden Moscow.
He held a copy of the report up to make his point during his opening statement, which preceded Hill’s. He also asked his staffers to give copies of the report to the witnesses, including Hill, “just so they can have a recollection of their memory.” Broadly, Holmes sensed a “dramatic” change in the situation at the embassy in Kyiv beginning March 2019, he testified, and by April 25, Holmes said, he became aware that Giuliani “ was taking a direct role in Ukrainian diplomacy.” That day, a childhood friend of Zelensky’s, Ivan Bakanov, told Holmes that he had been contacted by Giuliani, who represented himself as an adviser to Vice President Mike Pence, he said.
“I have been watching people making phone calls my entire life. My hearing is, and has been, great,” Trumpon Twitter. “Never have I been watching a person making a call, which was not on speakerphone, and been able to hear or understand a conversation. I’ve even tried, but to no avail. Try it live!” Holmes went on to testify that Sondland told Trump that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “loves your ass,” and that Trump asked Sondland whether Zelensky is “gonna do the investigation?” Sondland told Trump that Zelensky is “gonna do it,” Holmes recounted, and that Zelensky will do “anything you ask him to.”Ukrainians grew to see Giuliani as highly influential, a view bolstered by the Trump administration decision to pull the U.S.
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