the UNITED states’ambassador to the EU, Gordon Sondland, confirms in a hearing in Congress, that he has a clear impression that president Donald Trump blocked for the help to Ukraine. It happened in an attempt to push the political leaders in Kiev to investigate the circumstances of the democrat Joe Biden.
Sondland says 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 wanted 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.
the Hearings will clarify if the Trump abused his power, when he asked Zelenskij investigate the circumstances around the democrat Joe Biden, which is one of the Trumps opposition at the upcoming presidential election.
Gordon Sondland is in many circles seen as one of the Trumps nearest supports, such as in the designated period had close telephone contact with the president.
