Bill Taylor, the U.S. diplomat who protested withholding foreign aid in order to press Ukraine to advance President Trump’s political interests, has arrived on Capitol Hill to testify in the impeachment inquiry.
A career foreign service officer who became the top American diplomat in Ukraine after Trump’s controversial ouster of Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, Taylor did not speak to reporters as he entered the closed-door deposition. But House investigators plan to question Taylor about why he believed Trump’s team was trying to orchestrate a quid pro quo would involve using security aid to pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate allegations involving the Democratic Party and former Vice President Joe Biden.
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