The secretary of state, who highlighted his former position as CIA director, failed to quash the conspiracy theory promoted by the president and Republicans when reporters questioned him about it.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo failed Tuesday to quash a discredited yet repeated conspiracy theory that it was Ukraine—not Russia—that meddled in the 2016 U.S. election.
President Donald Trump and Republicans have pushed the debunked narrative that Ukraine was responsible for the hack of Democratic National Committee emails in 2016 while the impeachment inquiry has centered on Trump's decision to withhold foreign military aid to Ukraine in an effort to pressure the country to conduct investigations that would benefit him politically.
President Donald Trump speaks next to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during a Cabinet Meeting at the White House on October 21 in Washington,DC.
Pompeo also sidestepped a question about whether he was involved in the campaign led by Rudy Giuliani, Trump's personal lawyer, to oust former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch. The career diplomat, who recently testified at the impeachment hearings, was recalled from her foreign post in May, capping off a smear campaign Giuliani is alleged to have led, according to several current and former administration officials who've testified in the impeachment hearings.
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