Last updated on July 18th, 2023 at 11:53 am
The staffer who Bill Taylor testified heard Trump ask about Ukraine investigating Biden will testify on Friday.
NBC News’s Josh Lederman tweeted:
JUST IN: A source familiar with the matter tells @NBCNews that the Taylor staffer who overheard Sondland's call with Trump is David Holmes, who was just added to the calendar to testify in closed session Friday
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— Josh Lederman (@JoshNBCNews) November 13, 2019
Bill Taylor said, Taylor said, “Following that meeting in the presence of my staff at a restaurant, Ambassador Sondland called president trump and told him of his meetings in Kyiv. The member of my staff could hear president trump on the phone asking ambassador Sondland about the investigations. Ambassador Sondland told president trump the Ukrainians were ready to move forward. They asked what President Trump thought about Ukraine. Ambassador Sondland said president trump cares more about the investigations of Biden, Giuliani was pressing for.â€
Video:
A member of Taylor's staff overheard Trump in a phone call asking about the investigation of Biden. #impeachmenthearings pic.twitter.com/M0iRaEnEHx
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) November 13, 2019
Hearsay exemptions don’t apply to impeachment. The account of a staffer who overheard Trump in a call is valuable evidence. It is also another direct connection of Trump to the Ukraine scandal. Trump has no deniability. Every defense that he has tried to mount for himself has imploded.
The staffer could be the most important witness yet, as it puts Trump right in the middle of the Ukraine shakedown.
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