Trump wanted Ukraine president to publicly say 'investigations, Biden and Clinton,' diplomat says
State Department official George Kent told congressional investigators Trump wanted the president of Ukraine to "go to microphone and say 'investigations, Biden, and Clinton.'"
George Kent, deputy assistant U.S. secretary of state, arrives for closed-door testimony before House committees on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019.WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump "wanted nothing less than [Ukrainian President Volodimyr] Zelensky to go to microphone and say 'investigations, Biden and Clinton,'" a State Department official told congressional investigators conducting an impeachment probe.
Kent, however, said that while he understood what the president wanted, at the time, he was not aware of what was being offered by the White House in exchange. "It was described as a hold, not a freeze," Kent said. He then explained how a relatively low-level aide at the Office of Management and Budget suddenly appeared on a Ukraine-focused video conference call on July 18, and told the diplomats on the call that the acting White House chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, "at the direction of the president, had put a hold on all security assistance to the Ukraine.
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