Giuliani and Sondland hijacked Ukraine policy to push for investigations, Trump impeachment witness

[mystery-ak]

Giuliani and Sondland hijacked Ukraine policy to push for investigations, Trump impeachment witness Fiona Hill says
Published Thu, Nov 21 201912:39 PM ESTUpdated 4 hours ago
Christina Wilkie

    Fiona Hill says White House officials watched as Rudy Giuliani effectively hijacked U.S. policy towards Ukraine.

    Giuliani “was clearly pushing forward issues and ideas that would probably come back to haunt us,” she testifies to impeachment inquiry.

    Hill says former national security advisor John Bolton instructed her to tell lawyers he was “not part of whatever drug deal Sondland and Mulvaney were cooking up.”

WASHINGTON – Fiona Hill, the former top Russia expert at the National Security Council, testified Thursday that top officials in the Trump administration became increasingly frustrated as they watched President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, effectively hijack U.S. policy towards Ukraine earlier this year.

Hill also told the House Intelligence Committee that it was clear to her and those around her that Giuliani was pushing a different agenda than the official position of the United States, and that his actions concerned her and frustrated her boss, then-national security advisor John Bolton.

At one point, Hill said, she asked Bolton if there was anything they could do to get Giuliani to halt his public campaign to get the U.S. ambassador to the Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, removed from her post.

Hill recalled that Bolton “looked pained, and basically indicated with body language that there was nothing which we could do about it. And he then, in the course of that discussion, said that Rudy Giuliani was a hand grenade that was going to blow everyone up.”

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[Bigun]

Show me the evidence!  So far,  I have seen nothing that would approach being that.

[Formerly Once-Ler]

Show me the evidence!  So far,  I have seen nothing that would approach being that.

That's the secret...always leave them begging for more.  I want to see Bolton testify next.

[Chosen Daughter]

That's the secret...always leave them begging for more.  I want to see Bolton testify next.

I do want to see Bolton testify also.  I wish he would.  Of course they would try to make him a Russian spy also.

[andy58-in-nh]

The truth is that the State Department has hijacked America's foreign policy, pursuing their own policy preferences and initiatives as though the Foreign Service were empowered to make such policy and the President was obligated to follow it - instead of the other way around.

[Wingnut]

The truth is that the State Department has hijacked America's foreign policy, pursuing their own policy preferences and initiatives as though the Foreign Service were empowered to make such policy and the President was obligated to follow it - instead of the other way around.

This.  Not what the previous 2 trump haters said.

[aligncare]

The truth is that the State Department has hijacked America's foreign policy, pursuing their own policy preferences and initiatives as though the Foreign Service were empowered to make such policy and the President was obligated to follow it - instead of the other way around.

Yep. Trump won for cause: more voters agreed with Trump’s world view and personality than Hillary’s. Plus, he campaigned his ass off while Hillary skated on her name and connections. Voters appreciated the former and hated the latter.

This.  Not what the previous 2 trump haters said.

They’d be wise to join the anti-resistance. Haven’t they seen the resistance?  Don’t they notice who their fellow Trump critics are. Time to choose. It’s an America First president versus extras off the set of Mad Max Thunderdome.

[dfwgator]

So not doing what the State Department wants is "hijacking"?

The State Department works for the President, not the other way around.

[Bigun]

The TRUTH of the matter is that some George Soros lemmings at State (George Kent, Marie Yovanovich, and others) where coloring WAY outside the lines trying their best to protect the likes of Joe Biden, Mitt Romney, John F'n Kerry and Nancy Pelosi.