Pence insists that a conversation about arms-for-investigations, detailed in sworn testimony by ambassador Gordon Sondland, “never happened”
Referring specifically to the vice president’s knowledge of the quid pro quo, Sondland testified under oath about a September 1st meeting with new Ukrainian president Zelensky that Pence attended on Trump’s behalf. Sondland recalled: “I mentioned to Vice President Pence before the meetings with the Ukrainians that I had concerns that the delay in aid had become tied to the issue of investigations.
Responding to Sondland’s allegation, Pence is strenuously disputing the sworn account. Pence chief of staff, Marc Short, released a“The Vice President never had a conversation with Gordon Sondland about investigating the Bidens, Bursima, or the conditional release of financial aid to Ukraine based on potential investigations,” Short insists. “Ambassador Gordon Sondland was never alone with Vice President Pence on the September 1 trip to Poland.
Short claims that others involved in the events in question have substantiated that Pence did not participate in any quid pro quo. “Multiple witnesses have testified under oath that Vice President Pence never raised Hunter Biden, former Vice President Joe Biden, Crowdstrike, Bursima or investigations in any conversation with Ukrainians or President Zelensky before, during, or after the September 1 meeting in Poland.
The questions about what Pence knew and when did he know it were already ripe. The Vice President has portrayed himself as being as being at arms length from the quid quo pro scheme former National Security Adviser John Bolton derided as a “drug deal.” Sondland’s disputed testimony casts doubt on Pence’s claims to be in the dark, and increases the chances that the man first-in-line to succeed Trump may have to worry about his own political fate in a Senate impeachment trial.
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