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Sondland Updates Impeachment Testimony, Describing Ukraine Quid Pro Quo

Source: New York Times

Michael S. Schmidt 
By Michael S. Schmidt 
Nov. 5, 2019 
Updated 1:33 p.m. ET 

WASHINGTON — A critical witness in the impeachment inquiry offered Congress substantial new testimony this week, revealing that he told a top Ukrainian official that the country likely would not receive American military aid unless it publicly committed to investigations President Trump wanted. 

The disclosure from Gordon D. Sondland, the United States ambassador to the European Union, in four new pages of sworn testimony released on Tuesday, confirmed his involvement in essentially laying out a quid pro quo to Ukraine that he had previously not acknowledged. 

The testimony offered several major new details beyond the account he gave the inquiry in a 10-hour interview last month. Mr. Sondland provided a more robust description of his own role in alerting the Ukrainians that they needed to go along with investigative requests being demanded by the president’s personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani. By early September, Mr. Sondland said, he had become convinced that military aid and a White House meeting were conditioned on Ukraine committing to those investigations. 

Mr. Sondland had said in a text message exchange in early September with William B. Taylor Jr., the top American diplomat in Ukraine, that the president had been clear there was no quid pro quo between the aid and investigations of former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., his son and other Democrats. But Mr. Sondland testified last month that he was only repeating what Mr. Trump had told him, leaving open the question of whether he believed the president. The new account suggested that Mr. Sondland may have not been completely forthcoming with Mr. Taylor, and that he was, in fact, aware that the aid was contingent upon the investigations. 

In his updated testimony, Mr. Sondland recounted how he had discussed the linkage with Andriy Yermak, a top adviser to President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, on the sidelines of a Sept. 1 meeting between Vice President Mike Pence and Mr. Zelensky in Warsaw. Mr. Zelensky had discussed the suspension of aid with Mr. Pence, Mr. Sondland said.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/05/us/politics/impeachment-trump.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage 
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9 minutes ago, Jimmy Snacks said:

Updated his testimony....really? 

 Yup after I heard or read other testemony it supposedly refreshted his memory. :lmao: He was likely promised something.

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5 minutes ago, Highmark said:

 Yup after I heard or read other testemony it supposedly refreshted his memory. :lmao: He was likely promised something.

Oh come now....it all sounds perfectly kosher!!!! 

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1 hour ago, Highmark said:

 Yup after I heard or read other testemony it supposedly refreshted his memory. :lmao: He was likely promised something.

No, he’s realizing what a piece of shit trump is. This gets more interesting by the day. 

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1 minute ago, spin_dry said:

No, he’s realizing what a piece of shit trump is. This gets more interesting by the day. 

My $1000  bet still is up for the taking.

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12 minutes ago, Mainecat said:

The whistleblower is insignificant now. His story was collaborated by many including Trump himself and his ambassador.

But yeah you clowns keep supporting a traitor.

Fuckin idiots

The whistle blower is a material witness when the subject of Biden comes up.

Insignificant. :lol:

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1 hour ago, Mainecat said:

He paid a million to trump for his ambassadorship. 

He just fried Trump.

Pence is toast too.

Now if Trump and Pence go down together who's next in line for the Presidents job?

Funny how that works?

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1 minute ago, spin_dry said:

We’ve moved on. The witnesses are testifying now. Stay with it. 

No.  It’s all going to fall in on itself and yes, it’ll all fall apart when this “whistleblower” gets unmasked.  

Dems will be caught and proven to be liars again.  What is with you libtwats?  Is there anything in your lives you don’t lie about?

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Just now, Zambroski said:

No.  It’s all going to fall in on itself and yes, it’ll all fall apart when this “whistleblower” gets unmasked.  

Dems will be caught and proven to be liars again.  What is with you libtwats?  Is there anything in your lives you don’t lie about?

Just like “Deep Throat” needed to be unmasked. Not. You’re retarded. 

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