‘Not going to take a fall:' Kurt Volker, former Ukraine envoy, poised to dispute Giuliani in congressional testimony
by Joel Gehrke
| October 02, 2019 06:13 PM
Kurt Volker, the former special representative for Ukraine negotiations, will dispute Rudy Giuliani’s account of back channel meetings with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, sources told the Washington Examiner.
“He's not going to take a fall needlessly for people if it's not warranted,†said Evelyn Farkas, a friend who worked as deputy assistant secretary of defense for three years under Barack Obama.
Volker, 54, who resigned his post as the U.S. special representative for Ukraine last week, will testify Thursday in a deposition that congressional Democrats scheduled as the first major step in an “an expeditious, coordinated†probe to impeach President Trump. Volker, who took the unpaid diplomatic assignment in addition to his work at the McCain Institute for International Leadership, is expected to prioritize defending his own reputation in a controversy that threatens to consume the administration.
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