Democrats are taking what may be their final shot today to make their case that the president abused his power by pressuring Ukraine to investigate his political rivals
Alongside Hill will be David Holmes, a minor player in the inquiry but one who supplied key evidence. Holmes overheard a phone call between Trump and Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, during which Trump audibly asked about the status of his desired investigations.
Hill’s closed-door testimony represented a crucial break for Democrats in the nascent stages of the investigation. She revealed that her boss, former national security adviser John Bolton, worried about a “drug deal” that Mulvaney and Sondland were involved in. He also called Giuliani a “hand grenade who’s going to blow everybody up” over his efforts to smear the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, in the spring, according to Hill.
Hill also testified about Sondland’s conduct, alleging that he attended meetings about Ukraine that were not in his purview. And she says she confronted him after a July 10 White House meeting during which Sondland raised the prospect of Trump’s investigations directly with Ukrainian officials. Hill had heated exchanges about the matter with Republican lawmakers, who have argued that Trump’s deep skepticism of Ukraine is warranted because some government officials criticized his positions on Russia policy during the 2016 campaign.
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