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(CNN) President Donald Trump's urging of Ukraine's President to investigate political rivals coincided with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban pushing a disparaging view of the country to Trump, The Washington Post reported on Monday.
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George Kent, the deputy assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, described Putin and Orban's influence during closed-door testimony to House investigators last week, US officials told the Post. Kent pointed to their efforts as a factor in turning Trump against Ukraine in the months leading up to his controversial call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that prompted a whistleblower complaint and impeachment inquiry, the Post reported.
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When Trump asked Putin during the May call for his impressions of the new Ukrainian President, Putin said he had yet to speak with Zelensky but criticized him as a former comedian linked to a Kremlin-hated oligarch, a Western official familiar with the conversation told the Post. Trump and Putin also met during a June global summit and spoke days after Trump's July call with Zelensky, per the Post.
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George Kent, the deputy assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, described Putin and Orban's influence during closed-door testimony to House investigators last week, US officials told the Post. Kent pointed to their efforts as a factor in turning Trump against Ukraine in the months leading up to his controversial call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that prompted a whistleblower complaint and impeachment inquiry, the Post reported.
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When Trump asked Putin during the May call for his impressions of the new Ukrainian President, Putin said he had yet to speak with Zelensky but criticized him as a former comedian linked to a Kremlin-hated oligarch, a Western official familiar with the conversation told the Post. Trump and Putin also met during a June global summit and spoke days after Trump's July call with Zelensky, per the Post.
It should also be noted when the con artist met Orban, this meeting was facilitated by Mick Mulvaney who overruled national security officials in approving the visit. Orban and the con artist met for almost an hour, without any documentation of what was said, before John Bolton, then the national security director, and a Hungarian official joined the conversation.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/21/politics/trump-putin-hungarian-president-influence-ukraine/index.html