Declassified Docs Show State Dept.’s Testimony During 2019 Trump Impeachment Was Radically Different from Reality

Newly declassified State Department documents appear to show that congressional Democrats’ top witness in their first impeachment trial in 2019 against President Donald Trump fibbed to Congress.

Trump was impeached for allegedly pressuring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy into announcing investigations into former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, over their business relationship with the Ukrainian firm Burisma.

The problem was that when former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch testified on Oct. 11, 2019, about Burisma, she acted as if the firm’s documented illicit activities were, and had alw...