EXCLUSIVE: Home Speaker Mike Johnson is asking on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to fireplace Ukraine’s ambassador to america after she allegedly organized a U.S. taxpayer-funded go to to a battleground state forward of the 2024 presidential election, Fox Information Digital has realized.
Ukraine’s ambassador to the U.S., Oksana Markarova, organized a tour of an American manufacturing website for Zelenskyy over the weekend in Pennsylvania, a key battleground state forward of November’s election.
Speaker Mike Johnson (Getty Photographs)
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Johnson, R-La., mentioned that tour was led by a “high political surrogate” for the Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, and “purposely excluded” Republicans. Johnson known as it clear “election interference.”
“I demand that you just instantly hearth Ukraine’s Ambassador to america, Oksana Markarova,” Johnson wrote in a letter to Zelenskyy solely obtained by Fox Information Digital Wednesday.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attends a joint press convention with Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Fee, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sept. 20, 2024. (Christoph Soeder/Pool Photograph through AP)
“As you might have mentioned, Ukrainians have tried to keep away from being ‘captured by American home politics,’ and ‘influencing the alternatives of the American individuals’ forward of the November election,” Johnson wrote. “Clearly, that goal was deserted this week when Ambassador Markarova organized an occasion through which you toured an American manufacturing website.
“The power was in a politically contested battleground state, was led by a high political surrogate for Kamala Harris, and failed to incorporate a single Republican as a result of – on objective – no Republicans had been invited,” Johnson continued, including the tour was “clearly a partisan marketing campaign occasion designed to assist Democrats and is clearly election interference.”
Johnson mentioned the “shortsighted and deliberately political transfer has induced Republicans to lose belief in Ambassador Markarova’s potential to pretty and successfully function a diplomat on this nation.”
“She needs to be faraway from her submit instantly,” he wrote.
Speaker of the Home Nancy Pelosi of California, left, shakes arms with Ukrainian Ambassador Oksana Markarova throughout an occasion unveiling a images exhibit in regards to the struggle in Ukraine April 28, 2022, on the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photograph/Jacquelyn Martin)
Johnson pressured that “all international nations ought to keep away from opining on or interfering in American home politics.”
“Assist for ending Russia’s struggle towards Ukraine continues to be bipartisan, however our relationship is unnecessarily examined and needlessly tarnished when the candidates on the high of the Republican presidential ticket are focused within the media by officers in your authorities,” Johnson wrote.
“These incidents can’t be repeated.”
Johnson thanked Zelenskyy for his “immediate consideration to this matter.”
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“I belief you’ll take fast motion,” Johnson mentioned.
Zelenskyy over the weekend visited a Pennsylvania ammunition manufacturing unit alongside two Pentagon leaders — the assistant secretary of the Military for acquisition, logistics and know-how and the Pentagon’s high weapons purchaser.
Zelenskyy additionally met with Pennsylvania Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro, who was mentioned to be on the brief listing to be thought-about as Harris’ operating mate earlier than she selected Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
Zelenskyy just lately participated in interviews and was crucial of former President Trump and his operating mate JD Vance, calling the Ohio senator “too radical.”
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro on the Celebration of Freedom ceremony throughout Wawa Welcome America July 4, 2023, in Philadelphia. (Gilbert Carrasquillo/GC Photographs)
The Home Oversight Committee is now investigating the Biden-Harris administration’s alleged use of taxpayer-funded sources to fly Zelenskyy to Pennsylvania forward of the November presidential election.
Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., introduced the investigation Wednesday and is searching for information relating to the administration’s alleged “misuse of presidency sources” to permit Zelenskyy to “intervene within the 2024 presidential election.”
“The Committee seeks to find out whether or not the Biden-Harris Administration tried to make use of a international chief to learn Vice President Harris’ presidential marketing campaign and, in that case, essentially dedicated an abuse of energy,” Comer wrote Wednesday in a letter to the White Home, Justice Division and the Pentagon.
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Comer mentioned his committee is investigating the circumstances that led to “justify” the administration’s transport of Zelenskyy on a Division of the Air Power plane to Pennsylvania.
Fox Information Digital reached out to the White Home, Pentagon, Justice Division and Harris marketing campaign for remark.
