“Everyone was in the loop. It was no secret.”Those are the two most important sentences in today’s opening statement by Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union. Sondland’s public testimony is the most hotly anticipated of the impeachment inquiry, and even before Sondland had uttered a word this morning, he’d lived up to his billing.In a blistering statement, Sondland testified that the president personally directed American efforts to extort Ukraine’s president into announcing two investigations that would aid Trump in his 2020 reelection effort.“I know that members of this Committee have frequently framed these complicated issues in the …read more
Source:: The Atlantic
