(WTIC-AM) -- Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy has provided Democratic House impeachment investigators with a written description of his trip to Ukraine in September.
In the letter to the leaders of the impeachment inquiry hearings, Murphy says the US ambassador to Ukraine, William Taylor told him it was a problem to have Rudy Giuliani pursuing a parallel foreign policy, because it was confusing Ukrainian leaders about whether they should deal with the embassy, or with Giuliani.
Murphy said he met with the new president of Ukraine along with other senators, and they discussed the White House's decision to hold up aid to Ukraine.
Murphy wrote he urged the Ukrainian leader to ignore Donald Trump's personal political representatives, and instead to deal with the Embassy.
Murphy argues in the document that suspending aid at that moment weakened Ukraine, and forced the US ally to sign a preliminary peace deal with Russia that was worse for Ukraine than if the aid had arrived earlier.
The president abused his authority in an effort to push Ukraine to investigate a political rival, Joe Biden, according to Murphy's letter.
The letter was written in response to a document written by Republican Senator Ron Johnson, who was also on the Ukraine trip.
Johnson's account prepared for Republican lawmakers painted the president's actions in a much more favorable light, and described the Democratic-led impeachment inquiry is a sabotage effort against the Trump administration.
