Politics & Government
Impeachment Investigators: Text Messages Show Pressure On Ukraine
State Department officials coordinated with the Ukrainian officials and President Trump's personal lawyer to investigate Joe Biden's son.
House investigators released numerous text messages late Thursday night illustrating how senior State Department officials coordinated with a Ukrainian official and President Trump’s personal lawyer to investigate the 2016 U.S. presidential election and an energy company that employed Joe Biden's son.
The texts were provided by former special U.S. envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker to investigators during a nearly 10-hour deposition Thursday. The messages reveal that officials felt Trump would not agree to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky unless Zelensky promised to launch the investigations — and did so publicly, The Washington Post reported.
Top Democrats say the messages show clearly that the Ukraine was pressured “to launch politically motivated investigations.”
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