WASHINGTON -- In weeks of closed-door testimony, U.S. officials who worked in Ukraine kept circling back to the work of one journalist, John Solomon, whose articles they said appeared to have considerable currency with President Donald Trump's inner circle.They had never known Solomon to be an authority
WASHINGTON — In weeks of closed-door testimony, U.S. officials who worked in Ukraine kept circling back to the work of one journalist, John Solomon, whose articles they said appeared to have considerable currency with President Donald Trump’s inner circle.
One witness testified to Congress that an article of his was full of “non-truths and non sequiturs.” Another witness said that he could not recall a single thing that was correct in one of Solomon’s stories, then added sarcastically, “His grammar might have been right.” According to transcripts released last week, Solomon and his pieces for The Hill are a focus for congressional investigators as they look into Trump’s efforts to push Ukrainian officials to investigate his rivals. One particular area of interest for Democrats, the transcripts show, is Solomon’s role in advancing claims by Giuliani, the president’s personal attorney, that former Vice President Joe Biden and his family deserved to be investigated for their own dealings in Ukraine.
Mark Levin, the radio and Fox host, recently said that Solomon and Sara Carter, a journalist with whom he frequently appears on television, were “like the Woodward and Bernsteins of our time.” When Solomon appears on television and the radio, Hannity and other conservative hosts often identify him as an investigative reporter and cite his decades of experience at organizations like the AP. But his critics see this as a sleight of hand to give his writing a veneer of nonpartisan objectivity.
Solomon denied that he has ever sought work in any administration and said the transparency office proposal had “nothing to do with seeking a job.” He added, “It had to do with fostering an idea for more transparency.” As for the attacks on his work from the impeachment witnesses, he said, “The NSC and State officials are entitled to their opinions of my reporting.”
In an interview with The New York Times last month, Lutsenko blamed the confusion on the interpreter who handled his interview with The Hill. But he insisted that the ambassador, Marie Yovanovitch, had in fact asked him not to target certain politicians and activists who worked with the embassy on its anti-corruption efforts.
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