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As the senior State Department official in charge of Ukraine, George P. Kent was so alarmed by what he viewed as U.S. President Trump’s efforts to initiate “politically motivated prosecutions” there that he wrote a memo about it over the summer — weeks before an anonymous whistle-blower’s explosive complaint prompted the impeachment inquiry.

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