Fiona Hill’s Testimony Is a Warning for Democrats, Too
Russia’s goal is to delegitimize the presidency itself, not just the current president.
An ideal witness, but for which side?
Photographer: Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images North AmericaFiona Hill was in some ways an ideal witness for the Democrats in Thursday’s impeachment hearings.
In her opening statement, the former Russia director of the National Security Council warned Republicans: “I refuse to be part of an effort to legitimize an alternate narrative that the Ukrainian government is a U.S. adversary, and that Ukraine — not Russia — attacked us in 2016.” She explained that she had come to learn that Gordon Sondland, the hotelier turned ambassador to the European Union, was “involved in domestic political errands” on behalf of President Donald Trump when it came to his Ukrainian diplomacy. She affirmed that her boss, former National Security Adviser John Bolton, described the schemes of Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani with regard to Ukraine as a “drug deal.”