US Secy of State deputy breaks with Trump over Ukraine call in hearing
US President Donald Trump’s pick for Russia ambassador, Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan, breaks with him on his scandalous Ukraine phone call.
“Soliciting investigations into a domestic political opponent — I don’t think that would be in accord with our values,” Sullivan told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Wednesday in reference to Trump’s pressure on the Ukrainian government to investigate his potential political opponent in the 2020 presidential election, former Vice President Joe Biden.
Sullivan, whose nomination was being vetted as the next US ambassador to Russia, asserted, however, that the president has “denied that there was any quid pro quo.”
That made New Jersey Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez criticize Sullivan’s “see no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil” approach.
This is while the GOP-controlled Senate leaders are mulling ways to tackle the impeachment inquiry underway in the House of Representatives.
“Obviously they’ve responded to the pressure that we put on them to try to handle this in a more transparent way that meets basic standards of due process that every American would be entitled to,” said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, claiming victory for Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision to hold a House vote Thursday on impeachment procedures.
“We’ll have to take a look at what the House produces later today and see if it passes the smell test of providing the kind of due process protections that the president and his team are certainly entitled to, just like President Nixon was and President Clinton was.”
Trump and Republican leaders in the House are in touch to put up a better defense of the president amid the Ukraine scandal.
“I’d rather go into the details of the case rather than the process,” Trump said Monday before a trip to Chicago. “Process is wonderful… But I think you ought to look at the case.”
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