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    Rep. Jim Jordan grills Ambassador Sondland on his quid pro quo claims: ‘When did it happen? … Never did!’
    Nov21

    Rep. Jim Jordan grills Ambassador Sondland on his quid pro quo claims: ‘When did it happen? … Never did!’

    Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) heavily scrutinized Ambassador Gordon Sondland’s impeachment inquiry testimony Wednesday in a fiery three-minute exchange that is making the rounds on social media.Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, testified in his opening statement before Congress that there was a quid pro quo for Ukraine to...

    LIVE NOW: BOMBSHELL interview: Rudy Giuliani responds to Sondland impeachment testimony
    Nov21

    LIVE NOW: BOMBSHELL interview: Rudy Giuliani responds to Sondland impeachment testimony

    During the House impeachment hearings Wednesday, U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland testified that President Donald Trump directed him “to work with Mr. Rudy Giuliani” — the president’s personal attorney — in an effort to pressure Ukraine officials to investigate Burisma Holdings, the Ukrainian natural gas...

    A$AP Rocky, not Ukraine, focus of Trump July 26 call, Gordon Sondland says
    Nov21

    A$AP Rocky, not Ukraine, focus of Trump July 26 call, Gordon Sondland says

    WASHINGTON — Ambassador Gordon Sondland says a July cellphone call with President Donald Trump “primarily discussed” rapper A$AP Rocky, who was imprisoned in Sweden earlier this year. Sondland told a House impeachment inquiry into Trump on Wednesday that testimony from U.S. diplomat David Holmes had jogged his memory of the …...

    Impeachment: Gordon Sondland ties President Donald Trump to quid pro quo in meeting with Ukraine president
    Nov21

    Impeachment: Gordon Sondland ties President Donald Trump to quid pro quo in meeting with Ukraine president

    U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland told impeachment investigators Wednesday there was quid pro quo involving the new Ukrainian president’s request for a meeting with President Donald Trump. …read more Source:: United Press...

    Gordon Sondland Provides the ‘John Dean Moment’ of Trump’s Impeachment
    Nov21

    Gordon Sondland Provides the ‘John Dean Moment’ of Trump’s Impeachment

    Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/GettyAmbassador Gordon Sondland’s bombshell testimony was a damning performance that undermined nearly every Republican talking point. He established that there was a clear “quid pro quo,” that Trump disliked and feared Ukraine, that “everyone was in the loop” on this, and that in listening to Rudy Giuliani’s...

    Gordon Sondland Rips Out the Heart of Trump’s Defense
    Nov21

    Gordon Sondland Rips Out the Heart of Trump’s Defense

    What did President Donald Trump know, and when did he know it? According to Gordon Sondland, he knew everything about the Ukraine scheme, and he knew it all along. The U.S. ambassador to the European Union confirmed the core allegations that ignited the impeachment inquiry: that Trump and his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani tried to coerce the...

    Sondland Impeachment Testimony Blows Up The GOP Defenses Of Trump
    Nov21

    Sondland Impeachment Testimony Blows Up The GOP Defenses Of Trump

    EU Ambssador Gordon Sondland was widely expected to be a bumbling mess at his testimony before the House on Wednesday. But, instead, he took aim at key bulwarks in the Republican defense of Trump. Sondland did not embrace the conspiratorial counter-narratives put forth by Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) at the hearings in the impeachment inquiry....

    Whistleblower interview sought by FBI
    Nov21

    Whistleblower interview sought by FBI

    WASHINGTON — The FBI last month requested an interview with the whistleblower whose complaint fueled the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump and Ukraine, a person familiar with the situation said Wednesday. An agent from the FBI’s Washington field office reached out to the whistleblower’s lawyers last month to seek …...

    Senate confirms Adrian Zuckerman as new ambassador to Romania
    Nov21

    Senate confirms Adrian Zuckerman as new ambassador to Romania

    The United States has a new diplomat in an Eastern European country whose governance Rudy Giuliani has said he sought to influence at the behest of paying interests—not in Ukraine, but Romania. While the House impeachment proceedings zeroed in on President Trump and Mr. Giuliani’s alleged actions involving Ukrainian affairs, …...

    Why Career Diplomats Are Becoming Campaign Advisers
    Nov21

    Why Career Diplomats Are Becoming Campaign Advisers

    Battered by haphazard decisions and neglect, the State Department has seen a mass exodus of diplomats during the Trump administration. Now some former diplomats are so worried about what another Trump term would mean—further erosion of alliances, more loss of credibility with friends and foes alike—that they are for the first time taking their...