Sec. of State Mike Pompeo is defending the actions of State Department officials who facilitated Pres. Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani in his efforts to pressure Ukrainian officials to investigate political opponents of the president.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is defending the actions of State Department officials who facilitated President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani in his efforts to pressure Ukrainian officials to investigate Trump's political opponents.
Giuliani has spent months now trying to pressure the government of Ukraine's newly elected president Volodymyr Zelenskiy to investigate unfounded allegations of corruption by former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, and of election interference against Trump's 2016 presidential campaign by Ukrainian officials, accused of leaking details about then-campaign manager Paul Manafort and his work for the corrupt Russian-backed oligarch who once led Ukraine.
In an interview with Fox News Tuesday, Giuliani said the department directed him to act, later telling other outlets that he briefed Volker and U.S. ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland after his meetings. The military assistance was eventually released by the State Department and Pentagon. Mark Green, the U.S. Agency for International Development administrator, told ABC News Thursday that none of his agency's assistance to Ukraine was ever held up:"I've never had a single conversation with anybody in the administration" about Ukraine, he said.
Pompeo has not said whether they will. The State Department has not responded to request for comment. There are also lingering questions about the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch. A career diplomat still in the Foreign Service and serving as a fellow at Georgetown University, Yovanovitch reportedly ended her term in Kyiv months early when she departed in May. Giuliani claimed in an interview that she was"fired" after he and Ukraine's former public prosecutor trashed her for obstructing investigations into corruption.
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