Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) criticized President Trump recalling Gordon Sondland as ambassador to the European Union
Johnson, who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee that deals with Ukraine and has pushed to support the country in its fight against Russia, said he made several phone calls to the White House before Sondland was removed to urge the president to not fire him. He declined to say who he talked to or share details of the conversations.
Jim McCarthy, a spokesman for Sondland, said that the ambassador has been in Washington in recent days in consultations with the State Department about his departure and will return to Brussels this coming week to complete that process. Sunday was the first time Johnson and Sondland had communicated since they last spoke on August 30, the senator said. Sondland reportedlyJohnson on that phone call that hundreds of millions of dollars of American aid to Ukraine had been held up because Trump wanted an investigation into what he believed was an orchestrated effort by the Ukrainian government to damage his electoral campaign in 2016.
Multiple administration officials testified during the impeachment probe that despite Trump’s claims, there was no evidence of a top-down attempt by the Ukrainian government to affect the outcome of the 2016 election.
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