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Trump’s Ukraine Envoy Emerges as Biggest Impeachment Threat

  • Detailed testimony provides House investigators with road map
  • Taylor statement contradicted Trump claim of no quid pro quo
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Envoy Says Trump Tied Ukraine Aid Directly to Probing Biden

Donald Trump’s top envoy to Ukraine just became one of the biggest threats to his presidency.

William Taylor, a career bureaucrat who took charge of the U.S. embassy in Ukraine in June, provided House investigators on Tuesday a meticulously detailed 15-page statement, chronicling an “irregular policy channel” with Kyiv, in which Trump associates circumvented traditional diplomatic paths to pressure the country’s new president to investigate White House political rivals.