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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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