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Volker Plans To Distance Himself From The Other Amigos In His Testimony


Kurt Volker, former special envoy to Ukraine, plans to deemphasize his role in the Ukraine pressure campaign by claiming ignorance of it, and to insist that he didn’t realize hypothetical investigations into Burisma were actually investigations into the Bidens.

Volker is one of the so-called “three amigos,” along with Ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland and Energy Secretary Rick Perry. Other witnesses have testified that the group, led by Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, comprised the backbone of the backchannel running U.S.-Ukraine policy.
According to the New York Times, Volker will toss Sondland directly under the bus, saying that he was ignorant that …read more

Source:: TPM

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