Trump’s former Russia advisor Fiona Hill in her opening statement debunked a conspiracy theory about Ukraine interfering in the 2016 presidential election.
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It was “someone at a lunch in a restaurant, making a call on a cellphone to the president of the United States,” Holmes said.Holmes said he heard Trump’s voice, booming through the cellphone, asking Sondland if Ukraine would conduct the investigations he wanted. The next month, a Ukrainian official told Holmes he’d been contacted by “someone named Giuliani who said he was an advisor to the vice president.”When someone wondered aloud why Giuliani and other Trump aides were so involved on Ukraine, Holmes remembered Gordon Sondland, ambassador to the European Union, responded, using an expletive, “Every time Rudy gets involved he goes and ... everything.”In a September meeting with Ukrainian President Zelensky in Kyiv, Sen.
Holmes indicated that the effort to get Ukraine to commit to investigations ticked upward a few days later. William Taylor, the senior U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, told Holmes that there was a push to get Zelensky to announce on CNN that Ukraine would open investigations into Trump’s political rivals.“I was shocked the requirement was so specific and concrete,” Holmes said.
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