October 26, 2019

A top State Department official told House impeachment investigators on Saturday about his role in supervising the chaotic fallout from President Donald Trump’s ouster of his ambassador to Ukraine earlier this year, according to a person familiar with the official’s testimony.

Philip T. Reeker, the acting assistant secretary of State for European and Eurasian affairs, assumed his role in March, just weeks before Trump forced out Marie Yovanovitch, his top diplomat in Kyiv. Reeker had to deal with the aftermath of the president’s decision, which disturbed senior American diplomats who viewed the move as politically motivated.

“More or less his first day on the job, the [Marie] Yovanovitch situation blows up,” said the person familiar with Reeker’s closed-door testimony, who was granted anonymity to candidly describe what Reeker told investigators during his more than eight hours behind closed doors.

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