Bob Livingston played a memorable role the last time a president was impeached. Now he’s been swept up in another impeachment effort.
As a Republican congressman, Livingston announced that he would resign his seat hours before the House voted to impeach President Bill Clinton in 1998. Hustler magazine had discovered that Livingston had been unfaithful in his marriage, and Livingston resigned and challenged Clinton to do the same. The move shocked House Republicans, since Livingston was set to replace Newt Gingrich as speaker the next month.
Livingston’s lobbying disclosure filings shed little light on who — if anyone — paid Livingston to push for Yovanovitch’s ouster. Her removal has become a focus of investigators examining Ukraine shadow diplomacy carried out by President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and his associates. Trump ultimately recalled Yovanovitch in May.
But the filings do show that Livingston and his firm, the Livingston Group, represented multiple Ukraine-related clients during Trump’s presidency. And Croft’s testimony has thrust the former congressman into the spotlight of the impeachment inquiry, as House Democrats more broadly examine Trump’s attempts to pressure Ukraine to investigate his political rivals.It’s unclear when Livingston’s conversations with Croft about Yovanovitch took place.
Livingston worked for the trade group, called the Association of Enterprises UKRMETALURGPROM, for only two months. He and other staffers at his firm called and emailed administration officials and members of Congress about the tariffs and Mykolska’s trip to Washington but didn’t accompany her to meetings once she arrived.
Livingston lobbied on behalf of “concerned citizens of Ukraine” who supported Yulia Tymoshenko, a former Ukrainian prime minister running to be the country’s president, according to a disclosure filing. When Tymoshenko lost the presidential race earlier this year, Livingston’s firm talked her up as a potential prime minister.
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