{"id":199057,"date":"2019-12-18T06:26:54","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T06:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/ambassador-bill-taylor-who-testified-in-impeachment-inquiry-leaving-ukraine-post.html"},"modified":"2019-12-18T06:26:54","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T06:26:54","slug":"ambassador-bill-taylor-who-testified-in-impeachment-inquiry-leaving-ukraine-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/ambassador-bill-taylor-who-testified-in-impeachment-inquiry-leaving-ukraine-post.html","title":{"rendered":"Ambassador Bill Taylor, who testified in impeachment inquiry, leaving Ukraine post"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Trump will be impeached in House, not convicted in Senate: Bill McGurn<\/a><\/h4>\n

Fox News contributor and WSJ editorial board member Bill McGurn discusses impeachment and a Washington Post report saying an average of national polls shows 41 percent of voters oppose impeachment.<\/p>\n

Bill Taylor<\/a>, the top U.S. diplomat for Ukraine who testified before the House in the impeachment inquiry<\/a>, plans to leave his post by the end of the year, a person familiar with his plans told Fox News on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Under the terms of the Vacancies Act, Taylor could have remained in his position until Jan. 8 — and even longer under his current State Department contract —\u00a0but will hand over\u00a0his responsibilities to the Deputy Chief of Mission on Jan. 1 and leave Kiev the following day. <\/p>\n

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\n Ambassador Bill Taylor and George Kent, deputy assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian Affairs, testify before a House Intelligence Committee hearing as part of the impeachment inquiry into President Trump.\u00a0
\n (Reuters)<\/span><\/p>\n

Taylor\u2019s future plans with the State Department<\/a> were not immediately clear, nor\u00a0was it clear who Taylor\u2019s permanent replacement would be. <\/p>\n

Taylor was serving as the acting ambassador, having never been formally confirmed by the Senate. Ukraine has been without a permanent ambassador since Marie Yovanovitch was fired<\/a> from the position in May. <\/p>\n

DEM REP. MCGOVERN SAYS IMPEACHMENT INTENDED TO STOP \u2018CRIME IN PROGRESS,\u2019 PREVENT \u2018RIGGING\u2019 OF 2020 VOTE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Taylor, a Vietnam War veteran who previously served as the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine under President George Bush, was tapped by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to replace Yovanovitch in June. <\/p>\n

Taylor made headlines last month while testifying before the House Intelligence Committee<\/a> regarding his knowledge of President Trump\u2019s dealings with Ukraine that have set in motion an impeachment investigation. <\/p>\n

In September, Taylor texted U.S. Ambassador to the E.U. Gordon Sondland saying it was \u201ccrazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign.\u201d <\/p>\n

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Hours later, Sondland replied: \u201cThe President has been crystal clear: no quid pro quo\u2019s of any kind.\u201d <\/p>\n

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Video Trump will be impeached in House, not convicted in Senate: Bill McGurn Fox News contributor and WSJ editorial board member Bill McGurn discusses impeachment and a Washington Post report saying an average of national polls shows 41 percent of voters oppose impeachment. Bill Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat for Ukraine who testified before the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-199057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}