Gordon Sondland has been at the center of the impeachment hearings since they started last Wednesday, but he hasn’t actually been in the room to testify until this Wednesday. Now it’s time to hear from the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, who previously gave a closed-door deposition, only to issue an amendment—but subsequent testimony has suggested Sondland has a lot more amending to do.
Witness after witness has described Sondland’s part in pushing Donald Trump’s extortion of Ukraine forward, pressing Ukrainian officials for the “investigations” Trump wanted into his political opponents and coordinating that effort among others in the Trump administration. And where most of the witnesses so far were not in direct contact with Trump himself, Sondland was, including the July 26 phone call overheard by witnesses that Sondland didn’t mention earlier. That’s one of many things he’s going to need to explain.
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Wednesday, Nov 20, 2019 · 8:27:58 PM +00:00 · Mark Sumner
Rep. Krishnamoorthi nicely points out that the conversations that the Republicans love — the “no quid pro quo” conversation — came after the whistleblower complaint, after Congress had opened an investigation into the hold on assistance, and after Trump had started getting calls from Senators asking what was going on.