Kurt Volker, a former U.S. envoy to Ukraine, defends former Vice President Joe Biden at impeachment hearings against President Donald Trump. More here: ImpeachmentHearings
WASHINGTON - Senior U.S. officials told impeachment investigators in Congress on Tuesday they were concerned by President Donald Trump’s effort to get Ukraine to investigate a political rival, with one White House official calling it a “shock.”
Two other senior White House aides, Jennifer Williams and Tim Morrison, also said during Tuesday’s hearings, which spanned 11-1/2 hours, that they were concerned by the political nature of that phone call. The other involved a debunked conspiracy theory embraced by some Trump allies that Ukraine, not Russia, interfered in the 2016 U.S. election.See more stories
Republican U.S. Representative Francis Rooney told reporters: I don’t think there’s been a crime proven yet. ... But I want to see what happens. There’s still a lot of water to go down this creek.”Ahead of the July call, Trump had frozen $391 million in U.S. security aid approved by Congress to help Ukraine combat Russia-backed separatists in the eastern part of the country.“He said they ‘tried to take me down,’” Volker added.
On Tuesday, he said Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, made a “generic” comment about investigations that everyone regarded as inappropriate.Trump has attacked both Williams and Vindman on Twitter as “Never Trump” witnesses, a term he uses to describe Republicans who oppose him.
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