More bad news for the Trump administration, even as Sondland attempts to protect them.
Gordon Sondland is the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, and like many ambassadors in the age of Trump, he’s a grossly under-qualified lackey who basically got the job because he gave Trump lots of money that he made as a hotelier. Which makes it even funnier that he’s somehow involved in the middle of the Trump-Ukraine mess.
That’s good lackeying! But what’s happening now is bad lackeying: Sondland is about to testify in the House impeachment inquiry , and ABC NewsThe U.S. ambassador to the European Union will tell Congress that Presidentdirected him and others to work with his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani to push Ukraine to announce investigations, but that he was in the dark on the extent of Giuliani’s efforts and the political motive behind it, according to his opening statement obtained by ABC News.
All that said, Sondland is going to maintain that he didn’t know anything about the Bidens specifically, and hadn’t heard anything in that regard from Trump or Giuliani. Which is absurd, as ABC News notes:
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