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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…
He also reportedly told Congress that Trump replaced career staff on the Ukraine policy team with politically-appointed "three amigos:" Gordon Sondland, Kurt Volker, and Rick Perry. npr.org/2019/10/15/770…
Why Perry? Maybe because he was pushing changes to one of Ukraine's state-run energy companies that would help Giuliani's clients swing lucrative deals: apnews.com/d7440cffba4940…
According to Kent, the move was designed to sideline "career specialists whom the White House believed wouldn't go along with a plant o lean on Ukraine's leaders in an attempt to get them to launch investigations that might help Trump int he 2020 election.npr.org/2019/10/15/770…
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