White House blocks US diplomat impeachment probe testimony

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The Trump administration has blocked the US ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland from appearing before a congressional impeachment investigation.

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The White House on Tuesday blocked a top US diplomat from speaking to Congress as part of the impeachment investigation of Donald Trump, dramatically escalating the battle with Democrats over his presidency.

President Donald Trump walks with the US ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland, second from the right, on the tarmac.The diplomat's lawyer said he had agreed to be deposed by House Democrats probing the matter. But"early this morning, the US Department of State directed... Sondland not to appear today for his scheduled transcribed interview," his attorney Robert Luskin said in a statement.

I would love to send Ambassador Sondland, a really good man and great American, to testify, but unfortunately he would be testifying before a totally compromised kangaroo court, where Republican’s rights have been taken away, and true facts are not allowed out for the public....

The messages between the diplomats, Mr Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and a Ukrainian presidential aide show that they helped coordinate administration efforts to pressure Ukraine into investigating former vice president Biden, a 2020 White House hopeful, as the country sought US military aid and access.

Mr Schiff has requested those communications, but"the State Department is withholding those messages as well," he said."The failure to produce this witness, the failure to produce these documents, we consider yet additional strong evidence of obstruction of the constitutional functions of Congress," Mr Schiff told reporters.

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