Impeachment: Diplomats testify that Trump effort to extort Ukraine ‘undercut,’ ‘damaged’ U.S.
Longtime U.S. diplomats outlined their discomfort and disapproval with what they described as a campaign by President Donald Trump’s allies to hijack Ukraine relations for Trump’s reelection, the central issue in Trump’s potential impeachment.
The means of that effort involved dangling White House invitations to the novice Ukrainian president, Volodomyr Zelensky, and freezing about $400 million in military aid. It created at least one diplomatic casualty: Amb. Marie Yovanovitch, whom a disinformation campaign drove from the U.S. embassy in Kiev. Yovanovitch is slated to testify on Friday.
Kent, who spoke with more emotion than Taylor, told the panel that “it was unexpected, and most unfortunate, to watch some Americans – including those who allied themselves with corrupt Ukrainians in pursuit of private agendas – launch attacks on dedicated public servants advancing U.S. interests in Ukraine. In my opinion, those attacks undermined U.S. and Ukrainian national interests and damaged our critical bilateral relationship.
Mulvaney, whom several officials have told Congress in depositions is central to the Ukraine pressure campaign, is refusing cooperation with the impeachment inquiry. That Republican, Rep. Devin Nunes , who has alleged a conspiracy against Trump within the federal bureaucracy, said moments before the two diplomats testified that “the FBI, Department of Justice and now the State Dept has lost the confidence of millions of Americans.”
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