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Volker’s secret testimony appears to quash 'quid pro quo' theory

There was no “quid pro quo” requested of Ukraine related to security aid, former U.S. Envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker told lawmakers in a closed-door session.


Sources familiar with Volker’s testimony Thursday said the former diplomat rejected repeated assertions by House Democrats that Trump dangled security aid in exchange for cooperation from Ukraine in investigating former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden.

“He testified that the Ukrainians were not pressured, they never raised the issue of a quid pro quo with Volker, and they did not view the president’s call or subsequent interactions to be inappropriate,” the source told the Washington Examiner.

Volker praised Trump’s policy toward Ukraine and noted that Barack Obama resisted providing aid to the country, and that “encouraged Russian aggression, in Volker’s view.”

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/congress/volkers-secret-testimony-appears-to-quash-quid-pro-quo-theory

Ukraine president says there was no ‘blackmail’ in Trump phone conversation

The Ukrainian president said Thursday that there was no pressure from the White House during his now-infamous July phone call with President Trump, who had asked him to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden as well as a theory that Ukraine had interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

“There was no pressure or blackmail from the U.S.,” Volodymyr Zelensky said during a 14-hour series of meetings with Ukrainian and international journalists that were broadcast live from Kyiv on social media and several television channels.

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-10-10/ukraine-zelensky-trump-impeachment

Try reading what main players and not staff underlings have to say, shit for brains. Right from Ukraine President. It doesn't get any more official than that.