The documents were turned over 'in an envelope marked 'White House'' and contained 'folders labeled 'Trump Hotel,'' according to three top Democrats.
After House and Senate committee members received an unclassified briefing from the State Department Inspector General on Wednesday, three Democratic chairs said they were provided with documents that included a"package of disinformation, debunked conspiracy theories and baseless allegations" about former Vice President Joe Biden and former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch.
In a joint statement, Eliot Engel, chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Elijah Cummings, chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Adam Schiff, chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, said the State Department held an urgent briefing in light of the complaint filed by a whistleblower regarding Trump's July call with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky, during which he asked his foreign counterpart to probe Biden, his domestic political 2020 rival.
The documents were turned over"in an envelope marked 'White House'" and contained"folders labeled 'Trump Hotel,'" the congressmen said, adding that these documents"reinforce concern that the President and his allies sought to use the machinery of the State Department to further the President's personal political interests."
"The briefing and documents raise troubling questions about apparent efforts inside and outside the Trump Administration to target specific officials, including former Vice President Joe Biden's son and then-U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Masha Yovanovitch, who was abruptly removed as Ambassador in May after a sustained campaign against her by the President's agent, Rudy Giuliani," the lawmakers explained.
File photo: U.S. State Department Inspector General Steve Linick and I. Charles McCullough III , inspector general of the intelligence community, testify during a hearing before House Oversight and Government Reform Committee July 7, 2016 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.
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