[Washington 15th Reuters]-Deputy Secretary of State George Kent made a private testimony on the 15th of the House's three committees pursuing the investigation of the impeachment of Ukraine over allegations of Ukraine.
The White House and the State Department ordered not to respond to a subpoena subpoena for testimony.
Mr. Kent's testimony is not clear, but according to the New York Times (NYT), Kent told his colleagues in March that Trump ’s lawyer Juliani, former New York mayor, He said he expressed concern about putting pressure on Ukraine to investigate political opponents.
In the suspicion that President Trump has put pressure on Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Biden and his son, who are considered to be the most promising candidates of the opposition Democratic Party, with a view to re-election in the US presidential election next year, Former Ambassador of Ukraine Marsha Jovanovic, who was suddenly dismissed in May, testified at the House of Representatives last weekend and said that he was dismissed for a "no-found false claim".
Fiona Hill, former Chief Advisor of Europe and Russia at the National Security Council (NSC), testified the previous day. According to sources, Hill is wary of the pressure that Ukrainian President Bolton, who was formerly a boss at the time (National Security Officer), put on Ukraine in this summer to investigate political enemies, including Mr. Biden. It was revealed that I felt.
Mr Hill said in his testimony that Bolton advised him to inform NSC lawyers and that Bolton described him as a “grenade to blow people”.
Gordon Sondland, the European Union (EU) ambassador, will also testify on the 17th.
The three House committees also issued a subpoena calling for Mr. Juliani to submit the relevant documents by the 15th, assuming that Mr. Juliani was likely to have urged the Ukrainian government to investigate under the direction of President Trump. It was.
Juliani expressed that he would not accept the subpoena this day. His lawyer, in a letter, argued that the document the House of Directors wanted to submit was "beyond the field of legal investigation."
The investigation that President Trump has requested of Ukraine focused on Mr. Bien, son of Biden (49), who previously served as a director at a Ukrainian gas company.
Hunter Biden claimed in an interview with ABC News that aired on the same day that "no fraud has occurred". At the same time, he said, “It was my mistake to give an immoral person an excuse to use illegal techniques to hurt my father.”
