Ayşe @Soyluogullari

Ayşe Soyluoğulları https://t.co/svNHxw3aFe https://t.co/3BOd9LfbU2 x.com/Soyluogullari Istanbul, Turkey Joined May 2013

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6 years ago

Yovanovich has previously told congressional investigators as part of the probe that former Vice President Biden never "raised the issue of either Burisma or Hunter Biden" with her.

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6 years ago

Meanwhile, on Friday former ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovich is expected to testify before the House Intelligence Committee in public.

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the email said, saying the representative wanted to get "a better understanding of how the U.S. came to the determination that the company is corrupt" while arguing there was no evidence of corruption.

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6 years ago

“She noted that two high-profile U.S. citizens are affiliated with the company (including Hunter Biden as a board member),"

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6 years ago

They cited a 2016 email, first reported by Fox News contributor John Solomon, from a State Department official describing a request for a meeting from a Burisma representative -- the request name-dropped Hunter Biden.

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6 years ago

they wrote, further requesting State Department information related to Biden and Archer’s work.

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6 years ago

“Emails recently obtained and made public through a FOIA request indicate that Burisma’s consulting firm used Hunter Biden’s role on Burisma’s board to gain access and potentially influence matters at the State Department,”

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Ayşe @Soyluogullari

6 years ago

Last week, Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson, R-Wis., and Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, penned a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, taking issue with Biden and Archer’s roles on the board of Burisma.

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Ayşe @Soyluogullari

6 years ago

Even outside the impeachment inquiry process, GOP lawmakers are amplifying concerns over the younger Biden’s business dealings.

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6 years ago

But according to formal rules for the impeachment inquiry passed last month, Democrats have final say over witnesses.

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Ayşe @Soyluogullari

6 years ago

Devon Archer, as a witness, claiming he could help to understand “the nature and extent of Ukraine’s pervasive corruption” which could provide “information that bears directly on President Trump’s longstanding and deeply-held skepticism of the country.”

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Ayşe @Soyluogullari

6 years ago

Meanwhile, in a letter penned by Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., Republicans have also proposed Hunter Biden’s former longtime business partner,

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Ayşe @Soyluogullari

6 years ago

Taylor is expected to testify with Kent on Wednesday as part of the first round of public hearings in the impeachment inquiry.

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Ayşe @Soyluogullari

6 years ago

Taylor, during his closed-door deposition, testified that he “understood that the reason for investigating Burisma was to cast Vice President Biden in a bad light,” Taylor testified, adding that it would benefit “a political campaign for the reelection of President Trump.”

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Ayşe @Soyluogullari

6 years ago

The whistleblower’s complaint also stated their concerns that Trump was soliciting a foreign power to influence the 2020 presidential election — a concern that U.S. diplomat Bill Taylor directly testified to last month.

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6 years ago

The president’s request came after millions in U.S. military aid to Ukraine had been frozen, which Democrats and some witnesses have cited as a quid pro quo arrangement.

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6 years ago

Trump's now-famous July phone call in which he pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to launch the investigations prompted a whistleblower complaint and, in turn, the impeachment inquiry in the House.

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Ayşe @Soyluogullari

6 years ago

The Biden family actions in Ukraine, along with a separate issue connected to 2016 election interference, were at the core of what Trump wanted investigated out of Kiev.

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Ayşe @Soyluogullari

6 years ago

“I know I did nothing wrong at all. Was it poor judgment to be in the middle of something that is a swamp in many ways? Yeah,” the younger Biden said last month.

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6 years ago

Hunter Biden has also defended his role, saying he did nothing improper, while acknowledging that it was "poor judgment" to have joined Burisma's board.