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Ex-White House Aide Balks at Impeachment Inquiry Testimony

Ken Bredemeier

   WASHINGTON - A former White House national security aide balked Monday
   at testifying in the ongoing Democratic-led impeachment inquiry
   targeting President Donald Trump.

   Charles Kupperman, who served as a deputy to former national security
   adviser John Bolton, had been subpoenaed by Democratic lawmakers in the
   House of Representatives to answer questions behind closed doors about
   any knowledge he has about how Trump pressured Ukraine to open
   investigations to help him politically. Kupperman listened in on the
   July 25 call in which Trump pushed Ukrainian President Volodymyr
   Zelenskiy for "a favor" -- to investigate any involvement the country
   had in the effort to defeat him in the 2016 election and to investigate
   one of Trump's chief Democratic rivals in the 2020 election, former
   Vice President Joe Biden, and his son Hunter Biden's lucrative job as a
   one-time board member for Burisma, a Ukrainian natural gas company.

   The call, which Trump has described as "perfect," is at the center of
   the impeachment inquiry.
   

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