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Sondland: Trump Conditioned Ukraine Aid on Kyiv Opening Political Investigations


U.S. diplomat Gordon Sondland emphatically told the impeachment inquiry targeting President Donald Trump on Wednesday that despite the president’s denial, there was a conditional deal with Ukraine in recent months, that Kyiv would not get the military aid it wanted unless it opened investigations to benefit Trump politically.Sondland, the American ambassador to the European Union, told the House Intelligence Committee that impeachment investigators “have frequently framed these complicated issues in the form of a simple question: Was there a quid pro quo? As I testified previously … the answer is yes.”Sondland, a million-dollar donor to Trump’s inaugural celebration nearly three …read more

Source:: Voice of America

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