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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNYTimes: New Documents Reveal Details of Pompeo's Role in Ukraine Affair
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and President Trump last month at the White House.
WASHINGTON Internal State Department emails and documents released late Friday further implicate Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in a campaign orchestrated this year by President Trump and his personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani to pressure Ukraine for political favors.
The emails indicate that Mr. Pompeo spoke at least twice by telephone with Mr. Giuliani in March as Mr. Giuliani was urging Ukraine to investigate Mr. Trumps rivals, and trying to oust a respected American ambassador to Ukraine, Marie L. Yovanovitch, who had been promoting anticorruption efforts in the country. Mr. Pompeo ordered Ms. Yovanovitchs removal the next month. One call between Mr. Giuliani and Mr. Pompeo was arranged with guidance from Mr. Trumps personal assistant, the documents suggest.
The documents also show that the State Department sent members of Congress a deliberately misleading reply about Ms. Yovanovitchs departure after they asked about pressure on her. As part of the effort to oust her, Mr. Giuliani and his associates encouraged news outlets favorable to the president to publicize unsubstantiated claims about Ms. Yovanovitchs disloyalty to Mr. Trump.
The documents, and recent congressional testimonies in the impeachment inquiry, tie Mr. Pompeo closely to efforts by Mr. Trump and Mr. Giuliani to persuade the Ukrainian government to announce investigations that could help Mr. Trump politically. Those include investigations into the family of former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., a Democratic presidential candidate, and unfounded claims that Ukrainian officials worked to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. As Mr. Trump sought those investigations, he and his team held up $391 million of military aid critical to Ukraine which is in a grinding war against Russian-backed separatists and a coveted White House meeting.
The emails indicate that Mr. Pompeo spoke at least twice by telephone with Mr. Giuliani in March as Mr. Giuliani was urging Ukraine to investigate Mr. Trumps rivals, and trying to oust a respected American ambassador to Ukraine, Marie L. Yovanovitch, who had been promoting anticorruption efforts in the country. Mr. Pompeo ordered Ms. Yovanovitchs removal the next month. One call between Mr. Giuliani and Mr. Pompeo was arranged with guidance from Mr. Trumps personal assistant, the documents suggest.
The documents also show that the State Department sent members of Congress a deliberately misleading reply about Ms. Yovanovitchs departure after they asked about pressure on her. As part of the effort to oust her, Mr. Giuliani and his associates encouraged news outlets favorable to the president to publicize unsubstantiated claims about Ms. Yovanovitchs disloyalty to Mr. Trump.
The documents, and recent congressional testimonies in the impeachment inquiry, tie Mr. Pompeo closely to efforts by Mr. Trump and Mr. Giuliani to persuade the Ukrainian government to announce investigations that could help Mr. Trump politically. Those include investigations into the family of former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., a Democratic presidential candidate, and unfounded claims that Ukrainian officials worked to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. As Mr. Trump sought those investigations, he and his team held up $391 million of military aid critical to Ukraine which is in a grinding war against Russian-backed separatists and a coveted White House meeting.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/23/us/politics/pompeo-trump-ukraine-impeachment.html
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NYTimes: New Documents Reveal Details of Pompeo's Role in Ukraine Affair (Original Post)
spanone
Nov 2019
OP
Which 'news' outlets?!??!?! Good example of why they are the ones who are not news. nt
UniteFightBack
Nov 2019
#8
BigmanPigman
(51,588 posts)1. Will he put this on his resume when he runs for the Senate?
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,331 posts)3. hearing come and he want to go home ...
BigmanPigman
(51,588 posts)7. Ha!! Leave it to Colbert.
I thought he came from Hell. He certainly can go back there ASAP.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,331 posts)10. poor Kansas has suffered enough Russiapublicans
I wish Colbert's crew could put in some more verses.
malaise
(268,966 posts)9. Lock him up
NOW
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,331 posts)11. you didn't like the group shimmy at the end?
True Blue American
(17,984 posts)2. A graduate
Of West Point. How the mighty have fallen.
Sneederbunk
(14,290 posts)4. Kansas are you listening?
triron
(21,999 posts)5. I have not heard a peep from Schiff or Pelosi about pursuing actions against
all these other co-conspirators with Trump. So they off scott free?
triron
(21,999 posts)6. This is going to be part of a BIG story of widespread corruption.
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)8. Which 'news' outlets?!??!?! Good example of why they are the ones who are not news. nt