READ: Bill Taylor Testifies That Trump Asked Sondland About The ‘Investigations’

WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 13: Top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine William B. Taylor Jr. testifies before the House Intelligence Committee in the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill November 13, 2019 in Washingto... WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 13: Top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine William B. Taylor Jr. testifies before the House Intelligence Committee in the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill November 13, 2019 in Washington, DC. In the first public impeachment hearings in more than two decades, House Democrats are trying to build a case that President Donald Trump committed extortion, bribery or coercion by trying to enlist Ukraine to investigate his political rival in exchange for military aide and a White House meeting that Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky sought with Trump. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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In top Ukraine diplomat Bill Taylor’s opening statement Wednesday, he said that his staff was present when Ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland called President Donald Trump about meetings in Kyiv. Taylor said that the President asked him about the “investigations,” clearly referring to the bogus investigation into the Bidens he hoped Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky would help launch.

Read his prepared remarks here:

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  1. I do hope future American diplomats sent to Ukraine will take into consideration this puke Zelensky’s willingness to hurt America. The man is a coward and a shill. All he had to do was say Fuck You Trump I’ll work out a deal with the EU and tell the world what you asked me to do. Instead he licked balls.

  2. Avatar for trnc trnc says:

    I’m sure this has been covered, but obviously, regarding the claim from republicans that the aid be withheld until Ukraine did more work on corruption, someone in the administration should be able to point to a concrete piece of evidence of what Ukraine did in the days before the money was released.

  3. What world are you living in? That’s one of the stupidest comments I’ve read in quite a while.

  4. This testimony is riveting.

  5. Avatar for trnc trnc says:

    What do you mean? I haven’t read the statement, but from everything I’ve heard, Zelensky did not do what DT and his band of flying monkeys wanted even though he was under incredible pressure to get the military aid.

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