The House Intelligence Committee has just released more transcripts from depositions made by Trump administration officials, this time U.S. Ambassador to the E.U. Gordon Sondland and Special Envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker. Volker resigned so he could deliver his deposition without White House interference.
In Volker’s deposition, he totally debunks the administration’s and the president’s claim that their goal was merely to root out corruption, as President Trump has claimed repeatedly, including on Twitter:
But as The Daily Beast’s Sam Stein reports, Volker put that lie to rest in his deposition, saying bluntly “I believe that Giuliani was interested in Biden,” then answering yes when asked if he understood the whole corruption theory had been debunked:
Meanwhile, as The Wall Street Journal’s Rebecca Ballhaus notes, Ambassador Sondland’s memory had been “refreshed” and he had admitted “resumption of U.S. aid would likely not occur until Ukraine provided the public anti-corruption statement.”
More from CNN’s Shimon Prokupecz:
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