WASHINGTON (AP) A former top State Department aide testified in the impeachment inquiry that the Trump administrations politicization of foreign policy contributed to his resignation, while the Senate GOP leader briefed colleagues on a possible Christmas impeachment trial.
The days events, interrupted by an explosive meeting at the White House, churned as longtime State Department officials continued speaking out under subpoena some revealing striking new details about the actions President Donald Trump and his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, took toward Ukraine that have sparked the House investigation.
On Wednesday, Michael McKinley, a career foreign service officer and Secretary of State Mike Pompeos de facto chief of staff, told investigators behind closed doors that he could no longer look the other way amid the Trump administrations dealings with Ukraine, which were among the reasons he ended his 37-year career last week, according to multiple people familiar with the testimony, who, like others who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity, were not authorized to discuss it.