Zitat:
The story also showed that State Department officials had pressed Ukrainian prosecutors to drop or avoid certain cases, including one involving an anti-corruption center jointly funded by the State Department and liberal billionaire George Soros.
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One name that did not come up but Trump allies hope will arise in Friday’s public questioning is Victoria Nuland. Nuland had Mitchell’s job, assistant secretary of state for Europe and Eurasian affairs, from 2013 until the last days of the Obama administration. For several months in 2013, Yovanovitch served as Nuland’s top deputy.
Nuland was Obama’s top diplomatic hand on Russia and Ukraine and a tough Russia hawk. She was originally hired in the Clinton administration and remained on in the Bush years, eventually becoming a deputy foreign policy adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney.
...2016, a top FBI official knew that Glenn Simpson, head of the dossier-producing opposition research firm Fusion GPS, and others were “talking to Victoria Nuland at the U.S. State Department.”
trump gehört ganz sicher nicht zu team nuland.
Zitat:
The testimony revealed a previously unknown role for Livingston, who played a prominent role in the Republican-led drive to impeach Democratic President Bill Clinton in the 1990s, in the Ukraine controversy. Livingston was yet another well-connected Republican advocating against Yovanovich, including Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., Giuliani and former Republican Congressman Pete Sessions.
Lobbying disclosure filings with the Justice Department show Livingston’s firm represented two Ukrainian clients in Washington. They are former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who mounted an unsuccessful run for president this year in the election won by Zelenskiy in a landslide in April, and an association of Ukrainian metal producers.
The filings revealed a connection between Livingston’s firm and Giuliani, showing that Republican former Congressman Bob McEwen of Ohio, working as a consultant to the Livingston Group, introduced Tymoshenko to Trump’s lawyer last December.
und erwähnt noch weitere, hier noch nicht diskutierte connections.