U.S. envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker resigned on Friday, 1 day after the whistleblower report on President Trump and Ukraine was released, Arizona State University’s student newspaper first reported and outlets including CNN confirm.
Why it matters: The whistleblower at the heart of a controversy over Trump and Ukraine said that Volker, along with U.S. Ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland, met with Ukrainian officials a day after Trump’s July phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. According to the whistleblower, Volker and Sondland provided Ukrainian officials with advice on how to “navigate” Trump’s demands.
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- Volker is scheduled for a deposition on Oct.3 as part of the House impeachment inquiry and committee investigations into whether Trump jeopardized national security by pressuring Ukraine’s president to investigate political rival Joe Biden.
- Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson found the whistleblower complaint to be credible.
View the complete September 27 article by Orion Rummler on the Axios website here.