As President Donald Trump’s team braces for public impeachment inquiry testimonies beginning next week, they’ve focused much of their trepidation on the first witness in particular: Ukraine diplomat Bill Taylor.
According to CNN, the White House is wary of the combination of Taylor’s credibility — longtime and current State Department official, veteran, personally recruited by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo — and the damning information he first conveyed behind closed doors.
Trump is so anxious about the upcoming testimony that he barked at Pompeo for hiring Taylor in the first place, a rare rebuke for one of Trump’s preferred secretaries.
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Source:: TPM
