Trump’s Ukraine call was inappropriate, impeachment investigation hears
17 November 2019 - 16:47
Washington — The phone call between US President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart at the centre of the impeachment investigation was “inappropriate”, an aide to vice-president Mike Pence told legislators, according to a transcript released on Saturday.
Jennifer Williams, a foreign policy aide to Pence who was listening to the call on July 25, testified that Trump’s insistence that Ukraine carry out politically sensitive investigations “struck me as unusual and inappropriate”...
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