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John Bolton: Former national security adviser will testify in Trump impeachment probe, reports say – The Independent, Independent

John Bolton: Former national security adviser will testify in Trump impeachment probe, reports say – The Independent, Independent


    

             

                          

                                                                         

House impeachment investigators have invitedJohn Bolton, a former national security adviser toDonald Trump, to testify before Congress next week, according to reports.

                                                                                                                                                                                                     

Mr Bolton was reportedly called on by House investigators to give evidence for their impeachment inquiry into Mr Trump surrounding the president’s dealings with Ukraine.

                                                                                                                                                                                                        

The House investigators also called on two other witnesses,John EisenbergandMichael Ellis, both legal advisers to the National Security Council, to testify before committees spearheading the impeachment probe.

                                                                                                                                                                                 

  

    

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The committees have reportedly asked Mr Bolton to appear on 7 November, while Mr Eisenberg and Mr Ellis have both been asked to testify on 4 November. The depositions have not yet been scheduled.

                                                                                                                                                                                                        

House investigators have said they are interested in hearing from Mr Bolton after other witnesses testified of his concerns about Mr Trump’s involvement in Ukraine.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

    

        

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The news comes as House Democrats prepared for open public hearings possibly in a matter of weeks as their inquiry moves forward.

                                                                                                                                                                                                             

They are probing Mr Trump’s 25 July call with Ukrainian PresidentVolodymyr Zelenskyurging him to investigate Democrats and the family ofJoe Bidenas the White House was withholding military aid to the country. There is no evidence of illegal wrongdoing on any of the Bidens.

                                                                                                                                                                                                     

Mr Trump says he did nothing wrong, while Democrats call it a potentially impeachable offence.

                                                                                                                                                                                                     

On Wednesday, a State Department foreign service officer told Congress that Mr Bolton expressed caution about the role ofRudy Giuliani, Mr Trump’s personal lawyer, as a go -between with Ukraine. *******                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

Christopher Anderson and Catherine Croft, another foreign service officer, testified in the House impeachment inquiry.

                                                                                                                                                                                                     

Mr Anderson told Congress about a June meeting with Mr Bolton in which he said he supported increased White House engagement with the Ukraine government.

                                                                                                                                                                                                          

  

    

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But Mr Anderson also said Mr Bolton warned that Mr Giuliani was a “key voice with the president on Ukraine” and that that could be an obstacle.

                                                                                                                                                                                                     

Earlier this month Fiona Hill, a British-born former adviser to the president on Russia, said told the impeachment inquiry that Mr Bolton had referred to efforts to get the Ukrainians to investigate Mr Trump’s political opponents as a “drug deal “, and that he referred to Mr Giuliani as” a hand grenade who’s going to blow everybody up “.

                                                                                                                     

Mr Bolton, a foreign policy hawk who served as US ambassador to the United Nations under President George W Bush, was a surprise appointment as Mr Trump’s national security adviser. He left his job in September with Mr Trump claiming he had been fired and Mr Bolton insisting he had resigned.

                                                                                                                     

The Associated Press contributed to this report

                                                                                                                                                    

                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

             

  

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