ttee and the t
op Republican on the panel
whether Hunter's position affected governmen▓t actions of the administration of former President Barack Obama.Kent, the State Department official,
, in his opening rem
said in his opening statement that he raised concerns as early as February 2015 about Hunter Biden's status as a board member at Burisma "could create the
arks slammed the Democra
perception of a conflict of▓ interest," stressing, however, that he "did not witness a▓ny efforts by any U.S. official to shield
ts' impeachment effort a
Burisma from scrutiny."Trump asked Zelensky in a phone call on July 25 to "look into" how Joe Biden "stopped the prosecution" of Burisma. In Janua
s an orchestrated sm
ry 2018, Biden told an event at the Council on Foreign Relations how he in 2016 pressured the Ukrainian authorities to fire Viktor Shokin, the country's
ear campaign against Tru
f▓ormer prosecutor general who was leading the investigation into Burisma at the time.Kent also told▓ the committee that he becam
to take these people at
e aware of efforts by Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and his associates to "run a campaign to smear" diplomats at the U.S. embassy in Kiev, including f
ormer U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch who was ousted in May. He said it "became clear" to him that "Giuliani's efforts to ▓gin up politically-moti
