President Donald Trump's former top adviser for Russian and European affairs arrived on Capitol Hill to testify to House impeachment investigators on Thursday, a day after leaving his job at the White House. Tim Morrison, the first White House political appointee to testify, didn't respond to
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's former top adviser for Russian and European affairs arrived on Capitol Hill to testify to House impeachment investigators on Thursday, a day after leaving his job at the White House.
Morrison will be asked to explain that"sinking feeling" he got when Trump demanded that Ukraine's president investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and interference in the 2016 election. In fact, Morrison's name appeared more than a dozen times in testimony by Taylor, who told impeachment investigators that Trump was withholding military aid unless Zelenskiy went public with a promise to investigate Trump's political rival Biden and Biden's son Hunter. Taylor's testimony contradicts Trump's repeated denials that there was any quid pro quo.
Story continuesTheir concerns deepened when Morrison relayed on Sept. 7 the conversation he had with Ambassador Gordon Sondland a day earlier that gave him that"sinking feeling." In it, Sondland explained that Trump said he was not asking for a"quid pro quo" but insisted that Zelenskiy"go to a microphone and say he is opening investigations of Biden and 2016 election interference," Taylor testified last week.
Morrison was brought on board to address arms control matters and later shifted into his current role as a top Russia and Europe adviser. It was there that he stepped into the thick of an in-house squabble about the activities of Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, who had been conversing with Ukrainian leaders outside of traditional U.S. diplomatic circles.
Morrison told people after Bolton was forced out of his job that the national security adviser had tried to stop Giuliani's diplomatic dealings with Ukraine and that Morrison agreed, according to a U.S. official, who was not authorized to discuss Morrison's role in the impeachment inquiry and spoke only on the condition of anonymity.
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