Trump impeachment narrative gathers steam as diplomats fill in details by writerknowles
In the first week of public impeachment hearings, three witnesses, all veteran U.S. diplomats, added details of what they knew of President Trump’s efforts to get Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, a plan whose unraveling threatens his presidency.
On the July 26 call, which Sondland placed on a cellphone in a Ukrainian restaurant, Trump asked Sondland for a status update on “the investigations.” Republicans on the committee largely steered clear of the question of whether seeking an investigation into Biden from Ukraine’s government was improper. Instead, they noted that no such investigation had ever taken place. Trump’s defenders pointed out that Ukraine eventually received the nearly $400 million in U.S. military aid that witnesses said was held up to put pressure on Kyiv.
“If the president has something that is exculpatory — Mr. President, that means you have anything that shows your innocence — then he should make that known,” Pelosi said. “So far we haven’t see that.” Marie YovanovitchMarie Yovanovitch, former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, delivered powerful testimony Friday about what she called a “smear campaign” against her by President Trump and his allies, leading up to the president’s July 25 phone call with Zelensky.
“Ukraine, for example, where there are huge challenges, including on the issue that we’re discussing today of corruption, huge challenges, but they’ve made a lot of progress since 2014, including in the years that I was there,” added Yovanovitch. “I think, in part, I mean the Ukrainian people get the most credit for that, but a part of that credit goes to the work of the United States and to me as the ambassador in Ukraine.
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