Fiona Hill Testifies 'Fictions' on Ukraine Pushed by Trump Help Russia
WASHINGTON The White Houses former top Europe and Russia expert sharply denounced what she called a fictional narrative embraced by President Trump and his Republican allies that Ukraine, not Russia, interfered in the 2016 elections, testifying that the claim at the center of the impeachment inquiry was a fabrication by Moscow that had harmed the United States.
Testifying on the final day of the weeks public impeachment hearings, the expert, Fiona Hill, tied Mr. Trumps pressure campaign on Ukraine to a dangerous effort by Russia to sow political divisions in the United States and undercut American diplomacy. Her testimony before the House Intelligence Committee was an implicit rebuke to the president, suggesting that when he pressed Ukraine to investigate the theory that Kyiv rather than Moscow undertook a concerted campaign to meddle in the 2016 campaign, he was playing into Russias hands for his own political gain.
Dr. Hills account of how Mr. Trumps team carried out what she called a domestic political errand that diverged from his own administrations foreign policy amounted to sharp albeit indirect criticism of the president she served, and it brought home the grave national security consequences of the effort.
These fictions are harmful even if they are deployed for purely domestic political purposes, said Dr. Hill, the British-born daughter of a coal miner who became a United States citizen and co-wrote a lengthy book analyzing the psyche of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.
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