Sec. of State Mike Pompeo endorses Pres. Trump's calls for investigation into debunked theory about the DNC's server.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday endorsed President Donald Trump's calls for Ukraine to investigate a debunked theory about the Democratic National Committee's server -- one that holds that Russia's 2016 presidential election interference did not happen and it was Ukraine that conspired with the Democratic Party to take down Trump's campaign.
"I would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with … Crowdstrike," Trump said, according to the memorandum of the call released by the White House in September, adding,"The server, they say Ukraine has it." Pompeo was asked Tuesday whether the U.S. and Ukraine should investigate whether Ukraine, and not Russia, hacked the Democratic Party.
Pompeo also defended the State Department's response to the House impeachment inquiry, saying it will"continue to comply with all the legal requirements... as required by law and as appropriate, so that appropriate oversight can be conducted." Instead, under two separate lawsuits filed under the Freedom of Information Act, the State Department has been ordered to release documents related to Ukraine and the effort by Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani to dig up dirt on Trump's political opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden.
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