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Trump may be at the center of the Ukraine controversy, but the alleged extortion scheme likely implicates a whole host of top administration officials and advisers. Here are just a few of the others swept up in the scandal:
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Rudy Giuliani’s been front-and-center, apparently acting as Trump’s point person on the Ukraine shakedown after running a “shadow Ukraine agenda” on his behalf for months.
washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
Vice President Mike Pence has stayed away from most of Trump’s scandals, but Trump dragged him into this one by suggesting Congress investigate Pence’s calls with Zelensky as well.
politico.com/story/2019/09/…
Trump explicitly told Zelensky to work with Attorney General Bill Barr on investigating the Bidens. So why hasn’t Barr recused from matters related to the Ukraine scandal?
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo admitted this morning that he listened in on the July 25 call with Zelensky. Did he also know that Rudy Giuliani was working with State Department officials to advance the extortion scheme?
nytimes.com/2019/10/02/wor…
OMB Director and Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney was the first administration official Trump notified that he was withholding aid from Ukraine. Did Mulvaney know the president’s true motives?
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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin went on television to defend Trump last weekend. What did he know about Trump’s phone call with Zelensky when he did?
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Secretary of Energy Rick Perry filled in for Pence when Trump instructed Pence not to travel to Ukraine for Zelensky’s inauguration. Did he know he was part of the administration’s efforts to pressure the Ukrainian government?
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And Acting OMB Director Russell Vought was reportedly involved in the withholding and eventual release of aid to Ukraine. What did he know about why the aid was being withheld?
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Trump’s extortion scheme is rapidly becoming an administration-consuming scandal. Congress must continue investigating to learn the full scope of the Trump administration’s wrongdoing.
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Gordon Sondland will reportedly tell Congress that Trump directed him to speak to Rudy Giuliani before making any effort to improve relations with Ukraine—and that Mike Pompeo knew what Sondland was doing every step of the way. cnn.com/2019/10/17/pol…
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A State Department official testified yesterday that a supervisor told him to "lay low" when he raised concerns about Trump and Giuliani's shadow Ukraine agenda in May, shortly after US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch was recalled. nbcnews.com/politics/trump…
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The White House tried to block Fiona Hill from testifying yesterday.
She did it anyway, describing how Rudy Giuliani "ran a shadow foreign policy in Ukraine that circumvented U.S. officials and career diplomats in order to personally benefit Trump."
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Hill's legal team explained why they couldn't limit her testimony: Trump has already confessed to most of what she described—and besides, executive privilege "disappears altogether when there is any reason to believe government misconduct occurred."
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Hill also reportedly told Congress even John Bolton balked at Trump's shakedown, decrying "whatever drug deal Sondland and Mulvaney are cooking up," telling her to alert NSC lawyers, and calling Giuliani "a hand grenade who’s going to blow everybody up." nytimes.com/2019/10/14/us/…
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