The impeachment inquiry centers on Trump’s efforts to pressure Ukraine’s leaders to investigate his political rivals Online Cigarettes Store USA , including former Vice President Joe Biden, and allegations that Trump added to that pressure by withholding critical military aid to Ukraine. Democrats have zeroed in on what appears to be a shadow diplomacy effort, spearheaded by Giuliani, aimed at sparking such investigations and stiff-arming U.S. officials who stood in their way.
In his opening statement, Anderson plans to say that John Bolton, who served as Trump’s national security adviser Newport Cigarettes Shop until recently, told him during a June meeting that “Mr. Giuliani was a key voice with the president on Ukraine which could be an obstacle to increased White House engagement” with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Croft wrote in her opening statement that she heard Trump, both directly and indirectly, “describe Ukraine as a corrupt country.”
Anderson plans to describe how Giuliani’s involvement became such an obstacle earlier this year, forcing the State Department to Newport box 100s cigarettes scramble to contain fallout after the abrupt removal of Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, the top U.S. envoy to Ukraine whom Trump recalled after a smear campaign by the president’s allies.