State Department official says Giuliani was engaged in a campaign 'full of lies and incorrect info
Source: Washington Post
George Kent, the deputy assistant secretary of state responsible for Ukraine, criticized Rudolph W. Giuliani, President Trump’s personal lawyer, for engaging in a smear campaign against the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, according to the transcript of his closed-door deposition released by House investigators Thursday.
Kent testified that Giuliani’s “assertions and allegations against former Ambassador Yovanovitch were without basis, untrue, period.”
Earlier Thursday, Jennifer Williams, a special adviser to Vice President Pence on Europe and Russia, appeared after being subpoenaed and testified behind closed doors for about five hours as former national security adviser John Bolton declined to appear before House investigators.
President Trump, meanwhile, complained Thursday morning after a Washington Post report that he wanted Attorney General William P. Barr to hold a news conference declaring that Trump broke no laws during a July phone call in which he pressed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for the investigations. He also lashed out at an attorney for the whistleblower whose complaint prompted the Democrat-led impeachment inquiry
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Full headline: Live updates: State Department official says Giuliani was engaged in a campaign ‘full of lies and incorrect information’ about former ambassador
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Kent testified that Giuliani's “assertions and allegations against former Ambassador Yovanovitch were without basis, untrue, period.”
Kent and Yovanovitch are scheduled to testify next week in the first open hearings in the impeachment inquiry.
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