the UNITED states’ambassador to the EU, Gordon Sondland, confirming Wednesday in a hearing in Congress, that he has a clear impression that president Donald Trump blocked for the help to Ukraine.
It came to pass in an effort to push political leaders in Kiev to investigate the circumstances of the democrat Joe Biden. This should be done in order to find the possible information that would hurt Biden in the ongoing campaign against Trump.
Trump accused of having tried to press Ukraine’s government to investigate Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden, who in 2014 took a highly paid position in a Ukrainian consortium for energy.
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Sondland on vidnebænken. Photo: Ritzau Scanpix
Followed president’s words
Sondland said Wednesday that assistance to Ukraine should not have been exposed.
The american topdiplomat makes it clear that he sent the e-mails on the Ukrainian president to the foreign minister Mike Pompeo, to the former energy minister Rick Perry, and Mick Mulvaney, who is acting chief of staff in The White House.
In these e-mails from the 19. July he says, that the president of ukraine, Volodimir Zelenskij, promised to ‘turn every stone in the investigations, which Trump wanted’.
He points out that the Trump led a ‘something for something’policy towards Ukraine.
– We followed orders from the president, says Gordon Sondland, if the testimony is given special significance, as he was Trumps allies.
He says that Trump forced u.s. diplomats to cooperate with Rudy Giuliani, the president’s personal lawyer.
– We didn’t want to work together with Giuliani. But to say it simply, so we had to play our cards as they were laid for us, says he knows the public rigsretshøringer.
Donald Trump led a ‘something for something’policy. And he did so in an attempt to push the political leaders in Ukraine to investigate circumstances surrounding the Trumps democratic rival Joe Biden and his son.
It has the UNITED states’s ambassador to the EU, Gordon Sondland, on Wednesday, explained during a hearing in Congress. Just Sondland has a special significance in the case of the president Trumps the possible abuse of power.
It assesses the UNITED states-know Mette Nøhr Claushøj.
– It is totally devastating for the Trump administration. I have never seen anything like it during public hearings.
– He has confirmed that there was talk of blackmail, corruption, bribery – or what to call it – and so he has confirmed that all knew that it was going on. All the ministers, all the diplomats and the president himself, she says.
Hearings to determine whether there may be an impeachment of Trump, which can cause, that he is being forced to go by.
With testimony from Sondland seems Pompeo to have been given a more central role in the case, when he gave the order to the UNITED states’policy towards Ukraine should be coordinated by the Trumps personal lawyer.
Sondland says also that the foreign office withheld the documents, which had vital importance for his testimony to Congress.
According to the Sondland had Pompeo made sure that the UNITED states’special representative in Ukraine, Kurt Volker, came to speak with the former New York mayor Giuliani, who pressed on to get the ukrainians to go after Biden.
He said, Pompeo not even changed position, after the diplomats had complained that Giuliani had met a supposedly very corrupt Ukrainian prosecutor, without that they were oriented.
Sondland explained during the hearing in the House of Representatives on Wednesday, to Pompeo and former security adviser John Bolton and other senior people in the administration knew of the strategy towards Ukraine.
– They showed what we did and why. All were willing, said the ambassador.
hoping to put a Ukrainian investigation in the work was also a topmødeinvitation from the president of Ukraine exposed, said Sondland.
Democrat Adam Schiff, who leads the hearings, saying that witness statements from the Sondland is ‘a very important moment in these consultations’.
Schiff criticizes Trump for having put its own interests above the nation’s.
– He undermined our military, and diplomatic support for an important ally, and he undermined the UNITED states’efforts against corruption in Ukraine, says Schiff on Trump.
Sondland, who is a hotelier, was appointed to the post as ambassador to the european UNION for having supported the Trumps election campaign.
