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You are here: Home / Foreign Affairs / Ex-Trump Adviser ‘Deeply Disturbed’ by Ukraine Call

Ex-Trump Adviser ‘Deeply Disturbed’ by Ukraine Call

September 29, 2019 at 10:28 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President Trump was repeatedly warned by his own staff that the Ukraine conspiracy theory that he and his lawyer were pursuing was ‘completely debunked’ long before the president pressed Ukraine this summer to investigate his Democratic rivals, a former top adviser said on Sunday,” the New York Times reports.

“Thomas P. Bossert, who served as Mr. Trump’s first homeland security adviser, said he told the president there was no basis to the theory that Ukraine, not Russia, intervened in the 2016 election and did so on behalf of the Democrats. Speaking out for the first time, Mr. Bossert said he was ‘deeply disturbed’ that Mr. Trump nonetheless tried to get Ukraine’s president to produce damaging information about Democrats.”

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