Lawmakers from three House committees on Thursday began questioning Kurt Volker, the Trump administration’s former special envoy to Ukraine, as Democrats accelerate their impeachment inquiry into President Trump.
Volker, who resigned his post last week, was one of the figures named in the whistleblower complaint indicating that Trump had pressed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate corruption allegations against former Vice President Joe Biden, while delaying hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. aid that had been approved by Congress.
The notion that Trump would enlist the help of a foreign leader to gain a political advantage over a domestic rival outraged Democrats, who have heightened their investigative scrutiny of the president and could be drafting impeachment articles before the end of the year.
View the complete October 3 article by Scott Wong and Mike Lillis on The Hill website here.