Then-National Security Adviser Called Rudy Giuliani 'A Hand Grenade' On Ukraine
Former White House aide Fiona Hill told impeachment investigators on Monday that she and former Trump adviser John Bolton were troubled by actions by the president's private lawyer.
by Bobby Allyn
Oct 15, 2019
3 minutes
Then-national security adviser John Bolton was distressed about Rudy Giuliani. Trump's personal lawyer had bypassed established procedure for representing the White House with a foreign leader and had launched a secret back channel of communication with Ukraine. The shadowy moves were so potentially combustible that Bolton in private meetings earlier this year called Giuliani "a hand grenade who is going to blow everybody up."
That's according to people familiar with the closed-door testimony delivered on Monday to House members by Fiona Hill, a
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