At the close of a full day of testimony, House Intelligence Committee Democrats voted down Republican efforts Online Cigarettes Store USA to subpoena the unidentified whistle-blower and Joe Biden’s son Hunter to appear for closed-door depositions.
Also rejected along party lines were GOP subpoena requests for records on Democratic National Committee communications with Ukrainian government officials and for records from a company related to Hunter Biden’s position on the Burisma Holdings board of directors.
Republicans say they’ve been barred from calling witnesses they contend could show that Trump had reason Newport Cigarettes Shop to seek investigations of the Bidens and Ukrainian interference in the 2016 election. They also want to question the whistle-blower about factual issues and the person’s motives for acting.Democrat Eric Swalwell said Cooper’s disclosure about the July 25 inquiry by Ukraine about U.S. aid “destroys two of the pillars of the president’s defense.”
The first pillar was the “no harm, no foul” argument that Ukraine didn’t know the aid was being withheld, Swalwell said. The second was the idea that Trump cares about fighting corruption in Ukraine, he said.
Cooper said that on May 23, the Defense Department certified that Ukraine had met the standard for reducing Newport box 100s cigarettes corruption as required for providing military aid.
“Inexplicably, the president puts a hold on security assistance,” said Swalwell of California.
Republican John Ratcliffe of Texas noted that those emails didn’t specifically mention a hold being placed on the aid. He asked whether Cooper could be certain the Ukrainians’ question was about the freeze.