Kurt Volker, former US envoy to Ukraine, has resigned as the head of the McCain Institute amid mounting fallout over his role in President Trump’s push to get Ukraine to investigate his political opponents.
of corruption by the Biden family and Ukrainian involvement in 2016 election meddling.
The whistleblower complaint filed by a U.S. intelligence official in the wake of Trump’s call with Zelenskiy portrayed Volker and U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland as trying to"contain the damage" to national security inflicted by Giuliani’s work in Ukraine. And text messages that Volker turned over to Congress last week painted a picture of Volker and Sondland, rather than trying to rein in Giuliani, working to facilitate his and Trump’s goal of getting the Ukrainian government to commit publicly to an investigation. The texts also show Volker and Sondland explicitly linking the inquiry to whether Ukraine’s president would be granted an official White House visit, even though Trump insists there was “no quid pro quo.
But the texts messages appeared to tell a different story. They showed Volker and Sondland went as far as to draft and discuss specific language for what Zelenskiy should say, including a commitment to “initiate and complete a transparent and unbiased investigation of all available facts and episodes, including those involving Burisma and the 2016 U.S. elections.”
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