State Department official David Holmes told lawmakers that a 'childhood friend' of the Ukrainian president told him that 'someone named Giuliani' claimed he advised the U.S. vice president.
President Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani may have worked as an adviser to Mike Pence, according to a new impeachment inquiry witness transcript.in a closed door deposition that a"childhood friend" of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy informed him that"someone named Giuliani" claimed to be an adviser to the vice president.
"They [the Ukrainians] viewed him as a significant individual in terms of their relationship with the United States," Holmes told lawmakers in response. Asked again whether he was saying that Giuliani wasn't representing Donald Trump as a private attorney, Holmes shared details of a conversation he had with Zelenskiy's friend Ivan Bakanov.
Holmes was quick to note that the conversation was in Russian and said"he could've got the name—" before being cut off. Asked to confirm that Bakanov was referring to Mike Pence, Holmes said:"That's what he said. I don't know what he meant by that. But that's what he said.
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