Key Witnesses in Ukraine Aid Freeze Continue to Decline Cooperation with Impeachment Inquiry
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With the impeachment still at an impasse, important witnesses with knowledge of the White House’s withholding of military aid to Ukraine continue to refuse to testify. These witnesses include former national security adviser John Bolton, acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, senior adviser to Mulvaney Robert Blair, and associate director for national security at the Office of Management and Budget Michael Duffey.
A left-leaning article by The New York Times gives a detailed report of the Ukraine aid freeze, and the roles played by those witnesses who have declined to cooperate with impeachment investigators and provide information to Congress under oath. The article reports that Trump’s demand to withhold military aid from Ukraine sent shock waves through the White House and the Pentagon, creating deep rifts within the senior ranks of his administration, and left key aides such as Mr. Mulvaney under intense scrutiny. The article also states that some key players are now offering a defense that they did not know the diplomatic push for the investigations were playing out at the same time they were implementing the aid freeze.
A centrist article by The Hill highlights that in a new op-ed in The Washington Post, Senator Doug Jones (D-Ala.) questions whether a majority of senators will “pursue the truth” in Trump’s upcoming impeachment trial. Jones is considered to be the most vulnerable Senate Democrat up for reelection next year. In the op-ed, he wrote that the current amount of evidence may be enough to “make a judgment” but is “clearly incomplete,” and requested at least four witnesses with “direct knowledge” of the White House's withholding of military aid to Ukraine to testify.
A right-leaning article by the Daily Caller reports that House Minority Whip Steve Scalise shredded the House impeachment trial on “Fox News Sunday” and argued that lawmakers had no substantive evidence against President Trump. Scalise stated that the Senate will conduct a fair trial and contended that Pelosi hasn’t delivered the articles of impeachment, because she knows her party’s case against Trump is weak.
From the center
Will a majority of senators pursue the truth over all else?' Doug Jones asks in op-ed
The Hill
From the right
‘They Had A Weak Case’: Steve Scalise Rips House Democrats’ Impeachment Effort
Daily Caller