Who’s who in the Ukraine controversy that sparked the Trump impeachment investigation
- President Donald Trump’s efforts to pressure Ukraine into investigating a top rival in the 2020 U.S. presidential election prompted Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats in the House of Representatives to move ahead with an impeachment inquiry, threatening his presidency.Here are some of the other main American players in the drama.Trump’s personal attorney, a former New York mayor and 2008 presidential candidate, is a central figure in a scandal that has led to the impeachment inquiry.
In a July 25 phone call, Trump urged Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to meet with Giuliani and U.S. Attorney General William Barr to discuss the president’s concerns about Biden. As vice president under Trump’s predecessor, Democratic President Barack Obama, Biden played a leading role in U.S. efforts to dismiss Shokin over corruption concerns. Biden says he told Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in Kiev in December 2015 that the United States would withhold $1 billion in loan guarantees if Shokin remained on the job.Biden’s son served on the board of Burisma Group, a privately held natural gas producer, between 2014 and 2018.
But in his nine months as the nation’s top law enforcement official, Barr has taken several actions that have benefited Trump and caused Democrats to question his independence. He decided in March not to prosecute Trump for obstruction of justice for interfering with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian attempts to influence the 2016 election.
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel says Pompeo is a “fact witness” and has accused him of stonewalling their inquiry. In one exchange, Sondland sought to quell concerns by another U.S. ambassador, Bill Taylor - who as charge d’affaires in Ukraine is the senior diplomat there - that the Trump administration was withholding foreign aid until Kiev agreed to help with Trump’s political campaign, and suggested they “stop the back and forth by text.”The former U.S.
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