Jennifer Williams, a foreign policy aide to Pence who was listening to the call on July 25, testified that Trump's insistence that Ukraine carry out politically sensitive investigations "struck me as unusual and inappropriate." Pence aide said Trump's Ukraine phone call was 'unusual and inappropriate' https://t.co/R1yrw5arIp — Jeffrey Levin (@jilevin) November 16, 2019She said the discussion was "more political in nature" than phone calls with other foreign leaders, and included what she viewed as specific references to the president's "personal political agenda." Vice President Pence aide said Trump's Ukraine phone call was 'unusual and inappropriate' https://t.co/4DXkyRRNOp via @Reuters pic.twitter.com/WiZCC0elYi — 🇪🇺 🇲🇨🇨🇭Dan Popescu 🇫🇷🇮🇹🇷🇴 (@PopescuCo) November 16, 2019The House of Representatives on Saturday also released a transcript of an earlier closed-door deposition by Tim Morrison, a former White House aide with the National Security Council focusing on Europe and Russia policy, who was also on the call. The phone call occurred on July 26, one day after the now-infamous phone conversation between Trump and Zelenskiy. The testimony by Holmes, an aide to Taylor, ties Trump more directly to a pressure campaign in Ukraine to investigate the Bidens led by Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani.

Source: Dhaka Tribune November 17, 2019 07:30 UTC