Impeachment witnesses cast doubt on Trump’s motives for requesting Ukrainian investigations by jonward11
WASHINGTON — At the heart of the impeachment drama gripping the nation's capital is the question of whether President Trump's attempts to solicit Ukrainian investigations of former Vice President Joe Biden for his role in the firing a Kyiv prosecutor in 2016 and possible Ukrainian interference in to the 2016 U.S. presidential election were ethical.
“I don’t think pursuing these things serves the national interest,” Volker said in open testimony to the House Intelligence Committee, which is conducting the impeachment inquiry. Another witness who appeared on Tuesday dismissed outright the idea that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election. Story continuesTrump has long raged against the idea that Russian interference in the 2016 election helped him in any way. But the U.S. intelligence community, a congressional investigation and the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller have all overwhelmingly concluded that the Russian government waged an organized effort to sow discord in the U.S. in 2016, and that their efforts were aimed at helping Trump.
Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, who testified last Friday in an open hearing, told Republicans who asked her about Ukraine meddling that they were barking up the wrong tree. “I would remind you again that our intelligence community has determined that those who interfered in the [U.S.] election were in Russia,” Yovanovitch said.
The Democratic operative, Alexandra Chalupa, shared many of her findings with journalists, including with Yahoo News’ Michael Isikoff. Manafort resigned from the Trump campaign because of scrutiny over his lobbying for pro-Russian Ukrainina oligarchs. He was sentenced to four years in prison earlier this year for bank and tax fraud related to his work in Ukraine.
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