WASHINGTON -- A senior State Department official in charge of Ukraine policy told impeachment investigators Tuesday that he was all but cut out of decisions regarding the country after a May meeting organized by Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, describing his sidelining by President
WASHINGTON — A senior State Department official in charge of Ukraine policy told impeachment investigators Tuesday that he was all but cut out of decisions regarding the country after a May meeting organized by Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, describing his sidelining by President Donald Trump’s inner circle as “wrong,” according to a lawmaker who heard the testimony.
The meeting occurred on the same day that Sondland, Volker and Perry urged Trump in an Oval Office briefing to support and arrange a White House meeting for the new Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, from whose inauguration they had just returned. It was unclear if the meeting described by Kent was the same one or another session.
“There is no requirement that we have a vote,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi said. “We’re not here to call bluffs. We’re here to find the truth.” Republicans, who have pounded Democrats for not holding a vote to authorize an inquiry, kept up the pressure Tuesday, accusing them of ignoring obvious precedent set in the two modern presidential impeachment investigations to deny Trump and his party a fair process.
Schiff said that the committees had made “dramatic progress” in understanding the July phone call between Trump and Zelenskiy that prompted the whistleblower complaint. And the witnesses, Schiff said, had made clear that there was a paper record that had not been provided to Congress, despite numerous subpoenas.New requests for depositions continued to stack up.
In his voluntary appearance, Volker played down the idea that he and other presidential appointees had taken part in anything inappropriate, but he turned over a tranche of text messages with Ukrainian and American officials that showed at least some members of the diplomatic core were deeply alarmed by what they believed was happening.
In his earlier roles, Kent had aggressively pushed Ukrainian prosecutors to pursue investigations into Mykola Zlochevsky, an oligarch who owned a gas company that started paying Hunter Biden, the presidential candidate’s younger son, as a board member in 2014. He was pressed at length on his views of the case Tuesday, a personal familiar with his testimony said.
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