President Donald Trump's former top adviser for Russian and European affairs arrived on Capitol Hill Thursday to testify to House impeachment investigators , a day after leaving his job at the White House. Tim Morrison, the first White House political appointee to testify, didn't respond to
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's former top adviser for Russian and European affairs arrived on Capitol Hill Thursday to testify to House impeachment investigators , a day after leaving his job at the White House.
He has been in the spotlight since August when a government whistleblower said multiple U.S. officials had said Trump was"using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 U.S. election." Known as a"hawk" in national security circles, Morrison is the first political appointee from the White House to testify before impeachment investigators. The probe has been denounced by the Republican president, who has directed his staff not to testify.
Story continuesTaylor said Morrison recounted a conversation that Gordon Sondland, America's ambassador to the European Union, had with a top aide to Zelenskiy named Andriy Yermak. Taylor said Morrison told him security assistance would not materialize until Zelenskiy committed to investigate Burisma, a Ukrainian gas company that once employed Biden's son. A White House meeting for Zelenskiy also was in play.
"According to Mr. Morrison, President Trump told Ambassador Sondland that he was not asking for a quid pro quo," Taylor testified."But President Trump did insist that President Zelenskiy go to a microphone and say he is opening investigations of Biden and 2016 election interference, and that President Zelenskiy should want to do this himself. Mr. Morrison said that he told Ambassador Bolton and the NSC lawyers of this phone call between President Trump and Ambassador Sondland.
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