Nunes shreds testimony of Democrats' star witness wnd.com/2019/11/nunes-…
Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, said: "Our holding up of security assistance that would go to a country that is fighting aggression from Russia for no good policy reason, no substantive reason, for [no] national security reason, is wrong.
Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., challenged the testimony of Democratic star witness Ambassador William Taylor, pointing out the diplomat acknowledged in his deposition that he had no knowledge of the considerable evidence....
....supporting Trump's concern about Ukraine's connection to interference in the 2016 election and alleged corruption concerning Hunter Biden and former Vice President Joe Biden.
"What's strange is that some of the witnesses in these hearings and previous depositions who express alarm about these inquiries were remarkably uninformed about these indications of election meddling and why the president may have been concerned about it," said Nunes,
Nunes pointed out that Ukraine had a significant role in the origins of the Obama administration's discredited Trump-Russia collusion probe, which is now the subject of a Justice Department criminal investigation.
Among Trump's concerns, previously unknown to Taylor, Nunes said, were:
*Alexandra Chalupa, a staffer for the DNC, admitted she worked with officials at the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington to "dig up dirt" on the Trump campaign that she passed on to the DNC and Clinton campaign.
*Alexandra Chalupa, a staffer for the DNC, admitted she worked with officials at the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington to "dig up dirt" on the Trump campaign that she passed on to the DNC and Clinton campaign.
*The Politico story quotes Ukrainian parliamentarian Andrey Artemenko saying, regarding the activity of the Ukrainian Embassy, "It was clear they were supporting Hillary Clinton's candidacy."
*Then-Ukrainian ambassador to the U.S. Cherith Norman Chalet wrote an op-ed in The Hill during the 2016 election campaign criticizing Trump.
*Sergey Lushenko, then a Ukrainian parliamentarian, admitted part of his motivation for spreading the disputed "black ledger" purporting corruption by onetime Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was to undermine Trump's candidacy.
*Fusion GPS contractor Nellie Ohr, the wife of senior Justice Department official Bruce Ohr, testified to Congress that Lushenko was a source for Fusion GPS's operation to dig up dirt on the Trump campaign, ...
...including the compilation of the unverified, anti-Trump Steele dossier on behalf of the DNC and the Hillary Clinton campaign.
*Ukrainian internal affairs minister Arsen Avakov mocked and disparaged Trump on Facebook and Twitter.
Nunes' line of questioning was significant, because it discredits Taylor's concern that Trump's interest in corruption in Ukraine was only for personal political gain.
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