Gordon Sondland, U.S. ambassador to the European Union, was President Donald Trump's handpicked dealmaker on Ukraine, according to his fellow impeachment witnesses. On Wednesday, he testified publicly for the first time under subpoena.
By early September, Sondland said he made another connection -- that nearly $400 million in U.S. aid was on the line, too. Sondland said Trump"never told them directly that the aid was conditioned" upon the investigations. When the Democratic counsel asked whether he made that connection based on the evidence adding up, Sondland said yes.
"Everyone was in the loop," he said, speaking generally of the hold on military aid."It was no secret." Pence's chief of staff Marc Short said the vice president"never had a conversation with Gordon Sondland about investigating the Bidens, Burisma or the conditional release of financial aid to Ukraine based upon potential investigations."While Sondland was clear that a meeting between the two presidents was on the line, he said no one -- including Trump -- told him that the $400 military aid was indeed part of the deal.
ABC is as bad as CNN an MSNBC, but at least the others no longer pretend to be news journalists.
FAKE NEWS. Sondland admitted under questioning it was just his assumption.
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