US Envoy To Ukraine Resigns Amid Trump’s Ukrainian Scandal

Former US special envoy for Ukraine Kurt Volker (Photo credit: SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP/Getty Images)
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U.S. Special Envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker stepped down on Friday night.

Volker is one of the central figures of the scandal that’s been rocking the White House in recent weeks.

The ambassador connected Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s top aide amid Trump and Giuliani’s pressure campaign to get Ukraine to investigate Trump’s 2020 rival, Joe Biden.

The State Department had distanced itself from Giuliani’s role in the pressure campaign, stating that Volker had connected Giuliani to Ukraine at the Ukrainian government’s request and that Giuliani is a “private citizen” who “does not speak for the U.S. government.”

However, Giuliani has repeatedly insisted he meet with the aide at the State Department’s request and has gone on multiple cable news programs to profess his innocence in the debacle. He even posted his exchange with Volker on Twitter to prove that the State Department had requested him to work with the Ukrainian government.

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  1. It’s going to be hard for Trump to shoot the hostages this time if Rudy is going to keep beating him to it.

  2. An earlier story said he was a Special Envoy.

  3. He resigned to spend more time with his lawyers. Probably not going to be the last. ETTD. :slightly_smiling_face:

  4. Hmmmm…Rudy’s show and tell of Volker’s text must have sealed Volker’s decision to resign.

    Now that Volker is a private citizen, will the Criminal-In-Chief claim executive privilege, absolute privilege or threaten Volker to not be an R-A-T?

    One can only hope that Volker be truthful in his hearing to Congress!

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  5. Avatar for ottis ottis says:

    I believe that he found, that when you lay with dogs, you will get fleas.

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