US ambassador to EU Gordon Sondland admits military aid to Ukraine was contingent on criminal investigations into Joe Biden sought by President Trump
US Ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland attends the EU-US high-level forum on small modular reactors at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium on October 21, 2019. With that stunning reversal, diplomat Gordon Sondland handed House impeachment investigators another key piece of corroborating testimony Tuesday. He acknowledged what Democrats contend was a clear quid pro quo, pushed by President Donald Trump and his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, with Ukraine.
His three-page update, tucked beneath hundreds of pages of sworn testimony from Sondland and former Ukraine Special Envoy Kurt Volker, was released by House investigators as Democrats prepared to push the closed-door sessions to public hearings as soon as next week.Trump has denied any quid pro quo, but Democrats say there is a singular narrative developing since the president's July 25 call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy when he first asked for "a favour.
The people familiar with the matter were not authorised to discuss Hale's appearance publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. The ambassador initially testified on October 17 that he did not "recall taking part in any effort to encourage an investigation into the Bidens." At a pivotal May 23 meeting, Trump "went on and on and on about how Ukraine is a disaster and they're bad people", Sondland testified.
Pressed by investigators, Sondland testified that it would be improper for the US to prompt Ukraine to investigate the Biden family. "It doesn't sound good." "I want nothing. I want no quid pro quo," Trump said, according to Sondland. "I want Zelenskiy to do the right thing."
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