'Security assistance money would not come until the president committed to pursue the investigation,' the U.S. diplomat to Ukraine said of Trump's push to have a foreign country pledge to probe 2016 election interference and Democrats.
The top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, William Taylor, was"embarrassed" when he was questioned by Ukraine this summer about why hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign military aid to fend off Russian aggressions were being withheld.of his closed-door deposition with impeachment investigators last month was released Wednesday. Taylor further corroborated allegations of a quid pro quo by President Donald Trump withholding a White House visit and some $400 million in U.S.
"At that point, I was embarrassed that I could not give him any explanation for why it was withheld. It had still not occurred to me that the hold on security assistance could be related to the investigations," Taylor said."That, however, would change.
"There was an irregular, informal channel of U.S. policymaking with respect to Ukraine, one which included then-Special Envoy Kurt Volker, Ambassador Sondland, Secretary of Energy Rick Perry, and as I subsequently learned, Mr. Giuliani," Taylor stated.A Republican staff attorney, Steve Castor, has been leading the GOP's questioning of witnesses behind closed doors.
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