Christopher Anderson, former assistant to special envoy to the Ukraine Kurt Volker, will testify Wednesday that former NSA John Bolton warned about Rudy Giuliani’s influence on the President with regards to Ukrainian policy.
According to his prepared remarks obtained by CNN, Anderson will say that during a meeting in mid-June, Bolton drew his attention to the unofficial backchannel actually running U.S.-Ukraine relations.
“He cautioned that Mr. Giuliani was a key voice with the President on Ukraine which could be an obstacle to increased White House engagement,” Anderson is expected to relate of his conversation with Bolton.
Anderson is also expected to detail an episode where the White House blocked a statement condemning Russian aggression towards Ukraine.
In addition to Anderson, his successor, Catherine Croft, is slated to speak Wednesday.
According to her prepared remarks, she will tell of a lobbyist’s attempts to oust former US Ambassador to the Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, an effort spearheaded by Giuliani when Yovanovitch was not being receptive to the pressure campaign.
She will also relate her experience being on a video call when an Office of Management and Budget official said that acting director and acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney put an “informal hold” on military aid to Ukraine at the President’s direction.
The tentacles of this thing continues to morph at warp speed. If we still had a DOJ a mini-busload of these mobbed-up curs would be headed to federal accommodations in short order. If.
IANAL, but it sure seems to me that people are taking those subpoenas a whole lot more seriously than the screaming, ranting and stomping coming from the Toddler-In-Chief’s people.
Kinda like they all have their finger held aloft and can tell which way the wind is blowing.
And it’s an ill wind for Spankee & Co.
When Yosemite Sam and the mustache he rode in on are the voice of reason…
The thought that Bolton might be a savior of the Republic is inducing severe cognitive dissonance.
“He [Bolton] cautioned that Mr. Giuliani was a key voice with the President on Ukraine which could be an obstacle to increased White House engagement.”
This took place in mid-June, before the now-famous call. All these people were aware something was rotten, yet they waited until after the whistleblower came forward.
Our country’s debt of gratitude to that person increases daily.