It is a “false narrative,” that it should be Ukraine and not Russia, who interfered in the U.S. presidential election in 2016.
How does it sound on Thursday from the president of Donald Trumps former Russia adviser Fiona Hill. The tv displays the images from the Capitol Hill in Washington.
Hill said on the fifth day of the open hearings in the House of Representatives.
“The inconvenient truth is that Russia was the foreign power that systematically attacked our democratic institutions in 2016. It is the public conclusion made by our intelligence services,” she says.
the Reason for the hearings is a possible impeachment of president Trump.
the Democrats are accusing the Trump for to have the pressure on Ukraine to dig dirt rather than damage Trumps political opponent Joe Biden.
During Thursday’s hearing warned the Hill, however, first and foremost against Russia.
” In the course of this investigation, I would like to ask you not to promote political falsehoods, there so clearly is in Casinoslot Russia’s interest.”
“We are running out of time to stop them,” she says.
According to the Hill, members of the permanent select committee on intelligence of the House of Representatives, casting doubt on whether Russia interfered in the elections in 2016.
David Holmes, who is a political counselor at the u.s. embassy in Ukraine, speaks Thursday in the House of Representatives.
He refers among other things to a phone conversation between the US ambassador to the EU, Gordon Sondland, and Donald Trump.
Sondland testified Wednesday even in the House of Representatives.
According to David Holmes asked Trump over the phone Sondland, on the Ukrainian president would be to initiate an investigation.
“here he comes to,” said Sondland, according to Holmes.
It is not known exactly, what study they were talking about.
At Wednesday’s hearing told Sondland, how he was a part of the plan to was to press Ukraine’s government to start an investigation of Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden.
in turn, would Ukraine get a meeting with Trump in The White House.
“I followed the president’s order,” said Sondland Wednesday.
