A State Department official told lawmakers that Rudy Giuliani's attacks were part of a "campaign of lies" against the former Ukraine ambassador, according to a transcript released Thursday.
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State George Kent testified that President Donald Trump's personal lawyer's actions contributed to his decision not to speak out internally about Giuliani in the run up to the July phone call between Trump and the Ukrainian President. Kent, who oversees US policy on Ukraine, told lawmakers that he did not the speak to anyone at State to express his concerns about Giuliani because he had previously been told to "keep my head down" after Giuliani attacked him by name.
"I did not, in part because after Giuliani attacked me, as well as (then-US ambassador to Ukraine Marie) Yovanovitch and the entire embassy, in his late May interview, I was told to keep my head down and lower my profile in Ukraine," Kent testified in October.
Kent's testimony provides new insight into how then-US special envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker and US Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland worked with Giuliani on Ukraine, as well as the reactions inside the State Department to Giuliani's efforts that Kent and others say ran counter to US foreign policy. The three coordinated a draft statement for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to announce investigations into the 2016 election and Burisma, the company that hired former Vice President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden.
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“I love the poorly educated”
America is infested with them
@SMS Enterprise TDS = Trumps Delusional Sycophants. Maga morons.
kapital research yes and people who believe and support dems are the dumbest and most ignorant of all !!!
@Bobby Pointer If Democrats are dumb, then how do you explain the fact that conservative red stats have the lowest levels of education in America? How do you explain the fact that conservative rural areas are unsuccessful, while most of the liberal big cities are very developed and prosperous? How do you explain the fact that 99% of Republican voters are ‘white christians without college degree”? I guess that’s too many fact for a trump supporter, but reality shows that Democrats are smarter, more successful and far more diverse than Republicans.
I wonder if cyber security expert Rudy has finally unlocked his phone 🤔
@Bytor 1001 You lefties love Huawei, communism, organ harvesting and fascism. That’s why you’re all so angry about Trumps America vs China trade war.
What about releasing your Tax Returns mister sir ‘president’?
@Kurt Beck you just worry about defending the lefts heroic martyr Baghdadi. Worry about important things like putting more transgender MEN in bathrooms with our little girls and more transgender MEN in the MMA to fracture more women’s skulls. You just worry about how we are going to fund transgender abortions, lol and worry about how to create awareness for male periods. You just concentrate on learning the 52 gender pronouns and concentrate on calling out how biggited the bi community is for ignoring the other 50. You concentrate on sorting out all them racist white people that are so bad that the rest of the world comes here. You just worry about all those important things and let us Republicans take care of the silly things like running the country.
@Le Nom : The Bidens are trying to get white children addicted to coffee so immigrants can destroy our furniture!
@EatThe Babies : Spellchecking proves you are stupid, so you may be wrong.
“Invited “ Bolton? The holy hell is wrong with everything
The Democrats finally have a winning ticket – Kanye / Kardashian 2020 !!!!!
Dems dont know how to fight. Period
@Crystal Giddens
And trump wants to date his daughter. How fucking sick is that? I saw and heard trump say that.
@Crystal Giddens Your satanist mother fuked you up for life? Oh, that’s your problem!!! I see it now! God bless you Crazy Crystal!!!
Pence, trump and a few others need to speak under oath
@The Cat You ask a lot of questions you already know the answers to and im not going to add that to my already wordy responses.
The extortion was withholding funds: “Most states define extortion as the gaining of property or money by almost any kind of force or threat of violence, property damage, harm to reputation, or unfavorable government action.” Sounds like withhold military assistance for a personal/political gain would fit in as a unfavorable government action.
“Bribery refers to the offering, giving, soliciting, or receiving of any item of value as a means of influencing the actions of an individual holding a public or legal duty. This type of action results in matters that should be handled objectively being handled in a manner best suiting the private interests of the decision maker”
In this case the “item of value” is a public announcement of investigations into biden and the debunked story about a DNC server hidden in the sands over there. Trying to clear russia is kinda weird when our IC has alread universally said with certainty that Russia messed with our election
Ive heard reasonable people deny that it was extortion but not bribery as it is legally defined.
He is stonewalling congress just like nixon and just like him trump is obstructing justice.
Looks like you are part of the cult that refuses to accept reality so its kinda hard to justify our conversation
@John Gailey I always ask questions – always. Never take anything at face value. But again, I would like to see you point to the exact places in the transcript so I can better relate with what you are saying. You gave me definitions, don’t need them – need the part/parts in the transcripts where you say extortion/bribery took place. The exact wording – not the opinions of people that hate Trump. There’s lots of opinions of Trump haters and words twisted – Adam Schift tried to pass a “parody” as truth so wondering if you are basing your conclusions on parodies or actual wording via the transcript. And yes, if we’ve already moved into name calling I do prefer being a cult member to a Nazi Racist so thank you for that.
@John Gailey Wow, just cause you literally can’t point it out in the transcripts doesn’t mean you have to go all nasty. No one can point it out, that’s the facts but facts are foreign to you and well, so is patriotism. I leave you with this warning, 2020 and beyond is going to be rough for you, prepare now.
John Gailey all of Obama admin needs to and answer for their crimes and cover ups. All political and elected officials should be tried and serve prison time for every crime they commit. No exception
It’s time to send “Crazy Eyes” Rudy to prison….and take pence with you!
@Tom McDermott
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
FOR WHAT
YOU ARE JOKING
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
when that senile pos goes before Congress they need to waterboard him on TV.
if the pos dies TOUGH.
Send Rudy to RIKERS island prison, he put most of them in there. Lol
wait till the truth comes out in a few weeks and the demascum thats been trying to destroy you i and our whole nation comes out. theyve served them selves and would light a match to you and me. i was a dem untill i started paying attention and reseaching things. i hope you and every other of my fellow citizen will do the same without bias.
@Bobby Pointer
*FUNNY JOKE*
If treasonous
Hang them up
@Y B usa is the only country which is not always fighting a war
Iran
Not
China
Not
EU
Not
Why do Americans love war is it the American version of Christians who love American youth to die
Seriously
I am a New Zealander
Why do you americans love death
Is it for money?
The Democrats? Agreed.
Y B did you read that from a bubble gum wrapper?
@Y B curious if Trump is aggressively pushing for political ideas Putin asked for, only because Putin has given trump corporation money over the years.
Like not supporting Ukraine so Russia can invade totally
What level of crime would that be?
@joe Domjan – No I learned it from the tag on your mom’s panties.
George Kent sure cleared a lot of this up for me I’m glad I got to read his testimony.
*glad
Good morning I’m from Algeria🙏💞🌎🌍✌️
Good morning. This isnt a healthy morning routine. Enjoy morning coffee though.
Weird place to start your morning lol. But I wish you a good morning too ✌️☺️ I’m American, and I hope you don’t judge us based on our current president.
Edit: I understand if you do, tho. I’m still confused about this entire presidency.
@Alexander Supertramp Hello everyone I apologize I do not understand the language I love you my friends🙏💞😍💌✌️
@Richie Blaze This is the Facebook link that sent me a friend request
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https://www.facebook.com/100042627344007/posts/118190372945207/?substory_index=0&app=fbl
@ABDERRAHIM BELADJAL I don’t use Facebook. And the link you have says the page doesn’t exist. I wouldn’t trust that page at all, if I were you. Facebook is full of liars and scammers, so you never what’s real or not.
They have read it, including Lindsey – just no defense. I bet he read the tee shirt – it clearly says, READ THE TRANSCRIPT!
SO Pathetic.
@Chela Buford TRUTH 😁😍🤯💗💗💗💗✌✌✌
@Dorothy Wiese-Bergan TRUTH 😍💗💗💗💗✌✌✌😁😁😁🤯
@TangieTown81
“Collusion hoax”. That is all you needed to say to let me know you have nothing of substance to defend your position.
Trump was proven by the Mueller report and testimony, that tRump DID collude with Russia. But “collusion” is not a prosecutable offense with a sitting president. tRump DID obstruct the investigation. Trump was NOT exonerated, and it was PROVEN by two years of investigation, that Russia has and, as Mueller testified, “is, as we speak, interfering in our elections”.
You are fooling YOURSELF if you think this is a “hoax”. Read a book.
What about releasing your Tax Returns mister sir ‘president’?
“End corruption “?….#eyeroll
Have you ever asked yourself what does it look like to have zero integrity??? This is it….
Pence is a liar and Trump is too. He will be impeached but really both of them should be impeached.
@Lord Solar No thank you 😁
pjloco1 every time Adam Schaffer’s opens his lying mouth
2020 the year everyones eyesight will be clear may truth and love shine upon us each and every last one.
@Nancy Rocks bot season, huh?
@Mohsin Khan u r the troll
@Lincoln Hare likewise
@Nancy Rocks Truth is on our side.
@Nancy Rocks
Seditionist? That is not even a word. And I find it funny that when Democrats play by the rules established by Republicans, they are illegally attempting and coordinating a coup? Maybe because Republicans are crybabies who can’t handle how things are done when the Democrats have the majority in the House, and follow the rules made by Republicans. Get a clue.
Last, if anything shows from all this, we have serious holes and gaps that really need to be addressed, such as Whistle Blower Protections all the way to how we go about Impeachment.
That’s the silver lining. The holes otherwise supported by norms and ethics have been exposed.
We don’t need the whistle-blower – we just need to hear from attorney Mark Zaid and Stiff staffers.
It should be a crime to not show up when you’ve been subpoenaed, punishable by jail time. Also, if you refuse to answer questions or say you don’t recall, that should also be a punishable offense. These are public officials, and they should be held to a higher standard, that includes being punished for wrongdoing.
Let us bring the students whom Gym Jordan betrayed.
Aww yes the 3rd person to a problem! You people are wack!
@Banned B!!!! So you’d rather turn a blind eye to students get sexually harassed? Typical conservative
Waiting for those last second holdout Republicans to start jumping off TRUMP’S CORRUPT CRUISE SHIP!!!!!😂😂😂😂🙊🙊🙉🙉
Pence is morally corrupt & his talking points are so laughable it’s almost funny.
He’s a puppet on a trump string
I thought we learned not to vote entertainment personalities into office, in 2019 we are watching a reality TV con man president get caught pressuring a Ukrainian actor president? This is getting out of hand.
Petrol-Dollar he is a complete idiot and stupid as all get out!!
“make him look more innocence.”
Hahahahahahahahahahahahah!
Cohen should be released and reinstated to his purview, no questions. He knew the job was dangerous when he took it. I’m sure he can shed light on a few other issues as well, which would be quite damning to his former client.
Pence the Putz is a phony,”holier than thou”,insincere empty suit, this man has the nerve to lie everyday. He will answer to God for his crimes
Unfortunately. God is not real. So hopefully he will have to answer for his crimes to mankind.
Dorothy Wiese-Bergan God is real, whether you want to believe or not. Your eternity is at stake