Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, this week revised his earlier testimony to the House impeachment committees, sparking headlines about how he now admitted demanding a quid pro quo from Ukraine. For those not familiar with the phrase, that raises the question: What is a quid
Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, this week revised his earlier testimony to the House impeachment committees, sparking headlines about how he now admitted demanding a quid pro quo from Ukraine.Merriam-Webster defines the Latin phrase, which directly translates to “something for something,” as “something given or received for something else.”
In Sondland’s revised testimony, he acknowledges telling an aide to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that U.S. military aid was linked to Kiev launching investigations into former Vice President Joe Biden, a leading 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, his son Hunter and the 2016 election. Congress had approved the nearly $400 million in military assistance to help Ukraine battle Russian-backed separatists in the country’s east.
In other words, the quid and the quo were mismatched: U.S. foreign policy was being leveraged for political advantage at home. “Did [Trump] also mention to me in the past the corruption related to the DNC server? Absolutely. No question about that. But that’s it, and that’s why we held up the money,” he said.
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