https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/12/poli...mpeachment-inquiry-no-quid-pro-quo/index.html
The US ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland, is expected to tell Congress this week that President Donald Trump relayed to him directly in a phone call the content of a text message that Sondland sent denying quid pro quo.
Sondland's text message was sent to the top US diplomat in Ukraine, Bill Taylor, who raised concerns in a text to Sondland about the US withholding nearly $400 million of US military and security aid.
Sondland is expected to testify to Congress that he has no knowledge of whether Trump was telling him the truth at the time. "It's only true that the President said it, not that it was the truth," the person familiar with Sondland's planned testimony.
Sondland is a Trump donor and hotelier who has been EU ambassador since 2018. He exchanged messages with former US special envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker and a senior US diplomat in Ukraine about setting up the call between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Trump. He also exchanged messages about whether foreign aid was being withheld while Trump and Giuliani pushed for Ukraine to open an investigation into business activity by the son of one of the President's 2020 Democratic rivals, former Vice President Joe Biden.
There is no evidence of wrongdoing by the Bidens.
CNN previously reported Sondland called Trump to find out what was going on after Taylor raised his concerns about the US withholding assistance, according to a source with knowledge. Trump emphatically told him no quid pro quo, the source said.
Sondland is expected to tell Congress that for months before that text message exchange, he worked at the direction of Giuliani to secure a public statement from Ukraine that it would investigate corruption, according to the Post. In exchange for the statement, the President would grant Ukraine's new president a White House audience, the Post reported.
"It was a quid pro quo, but not a corrupt one," the person familiar with Sondland's testimony told the Post.
The wheels on the bus keep falling off, falling off, falling off .......
We have now located Hunter Biden!!!
Trump's "Joking Gun Defence":
"We were, all of us, Pompeo, Pence, Guiliani and his luvable Ukrainian friends, Sondland, Perry, the NSC lawyers, myself and the rest were just 'pranking" Zelensky."
The US ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland, is expected to tell Congress this week that President Donald Trump relayed to him directly in a phone call the content of a text message that Sondland sent denying quid pro quo.
Sondland's text message was sent to the top US diplomat in Ukraine, Bill Taylor, who raised concerns in a text to Sondland about the US withholding nearly $400 million of US military and security aid.
Sondland is expected to testify to Congress that he has no knowledge of whether Trump was telling him the truth at the time. "It's only true that the President said it, not that it was the truth," the person familiar with Sondland's planned testimony.
Sondland is a Trump donor and hotelier who has been EU ambassador since 2018. He exchanged messages with former US special envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker and a senior US diplomat in Ukraine about setting up the call between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Trump. He also exchanged messages about whether foreign aid was being withheld while Trump and Giuliani pushed for Ukraine to open an investigation into business activity by the son of one of the President's 2020 Democratic rivals, former Vice President Joe Biden.
There is no evidence of wrongdoing by the Bidens.
CNN previously reported Sondland called Trump to find out what was going on after Taylor raised his concerns about the US withholding assistance, according to a source with knowledge. Trump emphatically told him no quid pro quo, the source said.
Sondland is expected to tell Congress that for months before that text message exchange, he worked at the direction of Giuliani to secure a public statement from Ukraine that it would investigate corruption, according to the Post. In exchange for the statement, the President would grant Ukraine's new president a White House audience, the Post reported.
"It was a quid pro quo, but not a corrupt one," the person familiar with Sondland's testimony told the Post.
The wheels on the bus keep falling off, falling off, falling off .......
We have now located Hunter Biden!!!
Trump's "Joking Gun Defence":
"We were, all of us, Pompeo, Pence, Guiliani and his luvable Ukrainian friends, Sondland, Perry, the NSC lawyers, myself and the rest were just 'pranking" Zelensky."
