Bolton has been asked to testify on 7 November but it is unclear how he will respond to the invitation. His former deputy Charles Kupperman has asked a court to decide whether he should respond to a congressional subpoena to testify or obey a White House order not to appear.
The acting ambassador to Ukraine, Bill Taylor, has testified that Morrison had told him about a conversation between Gordon Sondland, the US envoy to the European Union, and a Zelenskiy aide, Andriy Yermak, in which Sondland said Ukraine would not receive security assistance until an investigation of Burisma was launched. There is no evidence of any illegality involved in Hunter Biden’s work for the corporation.
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Taylor also reported Morrison telling him he had a “sinking feeling” about a 7 September conversation between Sondland and Trump in which the president insisted there was no quid pro quo in what he was offering Ukraine, but then repeated his demand for targeted investigations.
On Wednesday, two state department officials gave testimony that added to the evidence that Trump abused his office in his relations with Kyiv. Christopher Anderson and Catherine Croft, who both worked for the special envoy on Ukraine, both told the House committees about the role played by Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, in foiling state department efforts to bolster Zelenskiy, in the face of Russian military intervention in eastern Ukraine.
In his testimony, Anderson quoted Bolton, as saying: “Giuliani was a key voice with the president on Ukraine which could be an obstacle to increased White House engagement.”
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