[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 18 (Tuesday, January 28, 2020)]
[House]
[Page H578]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                EVIDENCE PERTINENT TO IMPEACHMENT TRIAL

  (Mr. HOYER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HOYER. Madam Speaker, we have gone through and are going through 
a serious time in our country. The Senate is engaged, as was said the 
other day, in one of its most important duties and responsibilities.
  This weekend, a draft of the upcoming book by President Trump's 
former National Security Advisor, Ambassador John Bolton, was reported 
on by The New York Times.
  In that book, Ambassador Bolton, who was the National Security 
Advisor and foreign policy advisor for President Donald Trump, revealed 
additional evidence pertinent to the impeachment trial now underway in 
the Senate. There is strong and direct evidence that the President 
linked critical military aid to Ukraine. It is reported that so many of 
his advisers, including Mr. Bolton, could not understand that aid being 
withheld to our ally.
  He reveals that the President linked that critical military aid to 
Ukraine to the announcement of an investigation by President Zelensky, 
which was intended to benefit President Trump personally and 
politically.

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