{"id":35525,"date":"2019-11-23T09:34:03","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T09:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=35525"},"modified":"2019-11-23T09:34:03","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T09:34:03","slug":"fiona-hill-stop-fictional-narrative-of-ukraine-meddling-in-us-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=35525","title":{"rendered":"Fiona Hill: stop &lsquo;fictional narrative&rsquo; of Ukraine meddling in US election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former expert on Russia assaulted debunked conspiracy belief used to defend Trump against allegations of bribery<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2019\/nov\/21\/trump-news-today-live-impeachment-hearings-fiona-hill-david-holmes-latest-updates\">Impeachment hearings- live updates<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Republicans loyal to Donald Trump must stop driving the &ldquo;fictional narrative&rdquo; that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 presidential election because it plays into Vladimir Putin&rsquo;s hands, the White House&rsquo;s former top expert on Russia has told the impeachment inquiry in dramatic testimony.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/nov\/21\/fiona-hill-the-durham-miners-daughter-creating-waves-in-dc\">British-born Fiona Hill<\/a>, appearing in Washington on Thursday, attacked a debunked conspiracy belief used by Republicans to defend the US president against allegations that he tried to bribe Ukraine for his own political gain.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/nov\/21\/trump-impeachment-inquiry-fiona-hill-david-holmes-testimony\">Continue reading &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/nov\/21\/trump-impeachment-inquiry-fiona-hill-david-holmes-testimony\">theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former expert on Russia assaulted debunked conspiracy belief used to defend Trump against allegations of bribery Impeachment hearings- live updates Republicans loyal to Donald Trump must stop driving the &ldquo;fictional narrative&rdquo; that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 presidential election because it plays into Vladimir Putin&rsquo;s hands, the White House&rsquo;s former top expert on Russia has &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[179,583,15616,1953,15610],"class_list":["post-35525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-uncategorized","tag-donald-trump","tag-ukraine","tag-us-news","tag-us-politics","tag-world-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/38801574501644.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}