Former special envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker (screen capture)
Mr. Volker, who told Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday that he was stepping down, offered no public explanation but a person informed about his decision said he concluded that it was impossible to be effective in his assignment given the developments of recent days.
His departure was the first resignation since revelations about Mr. Trump’s efforts to pressure Ukraine’s president to investigate former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and other Democrats. The disclosures have triggered a full-blown House impeachment inquiry, and House leaders announced on Friday that they planned to interview Mr. Volker in a deposition next week.
Mr. Volker, a former ambassador to NATO who served in the part-time, unpaid position to help Ukraine resolve its armed confrontation with Russian-sponsored separatists, was among the government officials who found themselves in an awkward position because of the search for dirt on Democrats, reluctant to cross the president or Mr. Giuliani yet wary of getting drawn into politics outside their purview.
The unidentified intelligence official who filed the whistle-blower complaint that brought the president’s actions to light identified Mr. Volker as one of the officials trying to “contain the damage” by advising Ukrainians how to navigate Mr. Giuliani’s campaign.
Mr. Volker facilitated an entree for Mr. Giuliani with the newly elected government in Ukraine, acting not at the instruction of Mr. Trump or Mr. Pompeo but at the request of the Ukrainians who were worried that Mr. Giuliani was making the rounds seeking information about Mr. Biden and other Democrats.
reports that Democrats still expect Volker to show up for his deposition on Capitol Hill on October 3. It’s important to note that not only is the special envoy to Ukraine now gone, but the U.S. has no ambassador to Ukraine since the Trump administration called Marie Yovanovitch home for allegedly being not loyal enough.
Kamala Harris baited Rudy Giuliani’s dumb ass into reading State Department text messages off on an IPad and the very next day, the person involved in those texts (Kurt Volker) resigned lol.
— Ashley Reynolds (@Ashley_Reynolds) September 27, 2019
BREAKING: After being dragged into a political scandal by President Trump’s personal attorney, Kurt Volker, the U.S. special envoy to Ukraine, stepped down from his position https://t.co/bWUV6MW82W
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) September 27, 2019
Last night Rudy Giuliani started tweeting his text messages with Kurt Volker from the State Department, and today Volker resigned. Everyone involved in the whistleblower scandal is now one Rudy tweet away from going down. That’s a problem for them, because Rudy is fucking nuts.
— Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) September 27, 2019
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