Trump Ukraine pressure campaign was 'domestic political errand,' impeachment witness says
WASHINGTON – Trump's former top Russia expert Fiona Hill testified Thursday that the monthslong pressure campaign to try and get Ukraine to launch investigations into Trump's political opponents amounted to a "domestic political errand" that ran counter to legitimate "national security policy."
Hill recalled a argument she had this summer with Gordon Sondland, Trump's ambassador to the European Union, who was by then deeply involved in a secretive effort to get Ukraine to launch investigations. Hill said she later realized that Sondland "was absolutely right, that he wasn't coordinating with us, because we weren't doing the same thing that he was doing."
Hill's testimony serves to undercut a key argument that allies of the president have made in recent days, as evidence has mounted that the administration, did, in fact, plan to withhold nearly $400 million in foreign aid until Ukraine's government publicly announced that it would launch two investigations.
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