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Sergii Leshchenko: Republicans keep lying about me at impeachment hearings | The Kyiv Post
Ukrainian journalist and then-member of parliament Sergii Leshchenko with pages from the "Black Ledger".
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Ukrainian journalist and then-member of parliament Sergii Leshchenko with pages from the "Black Ledger".
11/19/19
I want to clarify my actions and respond to the accusations made during the hearing by Congressmen Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), and Steven Castor, Republican counsel for the House Oversight Committee. Republican politicians bring up my name in the context of two false narratives. Both narratives aim to feed the conspiracy theory that lies at the basis of Trump’s efforts to pressure Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, which in its turn started the impeachment inquiry.
Falsehood #1
The first narrative is that I was allegedly a source of information for Fusion GPS, a company that had been preparing a dossier on Trump and his possible connections in Russia. This was claimed by Nellie Ohr in her statement to the U.S. Congress last year. In their statements, congressmen Jordan, Nunes and counsel Castor assume and sometimes even falsely claim that I was working for the Democrats and “digging” up dirt on Trump and his staff. To stop this flow of lies, I tweeted back at congressmen Jordan, Nunes and counsel Castor. I said I’ve never met Ohr or anyone else involved with Fusion GPS. As a member of the Ukrainian parliament, which I had been until August, I have held thousands of meetings over the past five years. But I have never met these people. Perhaps they met me and introduced themselves using different names, but I definitely wasn’t talking to them as their source in the way Jordan, Nunes and Castor were trying to show. I also do not rule out that when Ohr mentioned me as a source of information, she was referring to my public statements or press appearances. I don’t understand what she meant, and I can’t even ask her, because I don’t have her contacts.
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