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    White House, GOP embraced 'fictional narrative' on Ukraine, witness warns as impeachment hearings wrap

    by Molly O'Toole and Jennifer Haberkorn, Los Angeles Times Nov 22, 2019 5 minutes

    WASHINGTON - Two weeks of public hearings in the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump closed Thursday with a collective warning from witnesses: Russia is again trying to sow political discord in the U.S. and interfere in the presidential election in a repeat of its success in 2016.

    In marathon days of testimony, a dozen current and former officials recounted in vivid detail how Trump and his aides withheld a White House meeting eagerly sought by Ukraine's newly elected president and also withheld military assistance from the embattled country. The motive, witnesses said, was to strong-arm Ukraine's new government into investigating Trump's political opponents in the last election and the next.

    The hearings before the House Intelligence Committee produced extensive new evidence on the pressure campaign set in motion by Trump's personal lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, and the actions of the trio of government officials Trump designated to

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