Gordon Sondland, Trump donor turned ambassador, will undercut Trump and confirm 'quid pro quo' in testimony
President Donald Trump's handpicked Ukraine adviser Gordon Sondland says Trump conditioned a valuable White House meeting for Ukraine's new president on his willingness to launch investigations into Trump's Democratic adversaries, including former Vice President Joe Biden.
Six days later, Trump spoke directly to Zelensky and referenced his request for a Biden investigation. Burisma is a reference to the energy company for which Biden's son Hunter sat on the board, and several State Department officials have indicated they came to understand that Trump's demand for an Burisma investigation was code for going after the Bidens.
Sondland acknowledged that his memory “has not been perfect,” adding that he does not regularly take notes and that the State Department has not given him access to all of his phone records and emails. He said the process would have been"more transparent" if the State Department would have provided the documents.
Democrats have already questioned Sondland’s honesty, noting that he couldn’t recall crucial moments during his closed-door testimony — but those moments were described richly by others. The top Trump ally has already amended his testimony once, and other depositions have raised doubts about whether he omitted evidence of a phone call with Trump that other witnesses recalled as potential evidence of the most damning charges against Trump.
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