WASHINGTON - U.S. diplomat Gordon Sondland told a Ukrainian official his country would likely not get nearly $400 million in security aid unless they pursued investigations demanded by President Donald Trump, revising earlier testimony to the Trump impeachment inquiry.
The impeachment inquiry is focused on a July 25 phone call in which Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to open an investigation into former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden. “No amount of salacious media-biased headlines, which are clearly designed to influence the narrative, change the fact that the president has done nothing wrong,” Grisham said in a statement.U.S. ambassador to EU saw quid-pro-quo in call for Ukraine corruption probe: excerptsSondland sent a text message in September in which he said Trump insisted there was “no quid pro quos.”
Much of the early parts of the investigation by the committees, which include Democratic and Republican lawmakers, were conducted behind closed doors, but now the inquiry is moving into a public phase. Democrats accuse Trump of misusing taxpayer dollars destined for a vulnerable U.S. ally for personal political gain. The security aid was approved by Congress to help Ukraine curb Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine.
Volker and Sondland, with Trump’s secretary of energy, Rick Perry, were known as the “three amigos,” responsible for Trump’s unofficial channel to Ukrainian government officials, witnesses testified.“I didn’t think I would be able to go to Ukraine or meet with Russians and be able to carry out those duties in that way anymore,” he said. He also said he wanted to provide testimony “with as much candor and integrity as I possibly could.
Is mr. Sundaland ' refresh'mind statement should help to impeach president Trump?This is billions of dollars question.
Politicians with mental and memory disorders is a prerequisite to office. Especially lawyers. The world is laughing, still 🤠
Wait, is this a rerun of the collusion hoax?
Lock him up
can you spell perjury?
It’s time for Trump to leave
Trump is commander-in-chief und has every right to ask questions before he transfers big amount of money to Ukraine - especially when corruption is behind and the DOJ is already investigating.
Two stories. Not credible.
did someone finally GROW A CONSCIOUS? note to VP GOD IS WATCHING HE SEES THE LIES YOU ALLOW TO BE PERPETUATED IF you believe the ideals/morals you espouse, you are going to HELL for not defending this COUNTRY over realDonaldTrump EGO - we have all seen your COMPLICITY.
Exposed. What’s his motivation to come clean? I think it’s deep. ImpeachTrump
Fake you. Dem lemmings
Trump extorts zelensky Is more accurate
Trumps fucked. Why the news out of America is on infinite repeat of what we already know? Stop the bullshit and say it like it is..they have the proof, stop the spin
Chump is going down... or else... REVOLUTION!
Changed his mind rather than face prison I bet.
No, he testified that he assumed he did.
Fake news, you are construing the story, you need to research a little, not just copy someone else's lie and report it.
Liar
LindseyGrahamSC this has to move you?
No shit sherlock
Fake News ...........HOAX
You forgot to add that he changed his testimony therefore he lied under oath.
And what did Trump get in return Oh that's right nothing
Hahahaha... What a revelation. Everyone in the MSM pretending quid pro quo was never a thing until President Trump made his Ukraine call. They even ignore the man who openly boasted about it, quid pro joe. Hypocrites
FakeNews : He didn't say that.
Remove Trump from Office.
NUL-POLITIC NEIGHBORLINESS POLICY. TRANSPARENCY IS LIGHT.
He PRESUMED* THEREFORE , HE SPREAD A FALSE MESSAGE
So the party is over!
Golly that sounds illegal
Didn’t everyone try to get pee tapes of Trump? Investigate any person who runs for office jfc.
Rutroh realDonaldTrump. And he's an actual Trumper! What to do, what to do 🤔🤔
I don't believe that.
Doesn't matter, already have 4 others who testified to the fact.
Maybe he will change it again.
dirtyburritt who could have guessed?
how can you change testimony, so he's admitting lying in the first place? How can he be credible
He Presumed....not a fact.
gop are you listening?
I wonder who coerced him, uh, I mean, 'refreshed' his memory. Which 'truth' are we to believe? Oh, wait. We can just read the transcript. Duh!
yeah, this peice of shit is obviously on the up and up.
So, Sondland is guilty of perjury. Right, RepAdamSchiff JerryNadler SpeakerPelosi tribelaw?
The Dems are fixated with baseless impeachment that will ultimately go nowhere! Meanwhile the economy is booming thanks to Donald Trump. The do-nothing Democrats are failures. Need proof... Just look at their lousy districts.
Assumption doesn’t determine verdicts. Anyone can say anything and everyone would be in jail.
incorrect. he didnt know, he presumed :
Let me guess...the new strategy is to admit to the quid pro quo and then say it wasn’t illegal 🤔
If he lied last week under oath maybe he is also lying this week
This is a lie‼️ It’s exactly the opposite‼️ NoQuidProQuo Journalism is dead!
Make that looking into corruption of Biden.
I call BS
His wife kicked his ass.
So he's not reputable. Giving two different stories makes him a liar.
This is asinine... Democrats have proved over and over that they cannot and will not investigate their own, even if the criminal is dumb enough to brag about it later on camera like Biden did... POTUS has the right & responsibility to correct past wrongs & criminal acts.
Not what he said!
“He thinks”
Is this the guy who wrote Anonymous
Extortion
Did he give them 6 hrs to do it like Biden did ?
Sondland lied then when he said he couldn’t recall and he lied today when he said he “now recalls”. He needs to be prosecuted .
Better get his story straight soon or he's going straight to jail for perjury one way or another. Flynn much?
Calling Lindsey Graham calling Lindsey Graham calling Lindsey Graham‘s brain
'Oh, you mean THAT quid pro quo. Oh yeah, I definitely saw that. Yup.'
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