“Was there a quid pro quo?” Gordon Sondland said in his opening statement at the ImpeachmentHearings. “The answer is yes.”
U..S ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland. Photo: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union and a central figure in the Ukraine scandal, affirmed in Wednesday’s impeachment hearing that a key White House meeting between President Trump and Ukraine’s new president was conditioned on the country opening an investigation into Trump’s political opponents.
Sondland emphasized that there was little mystery among senior White House officials that the meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky would only happen if he promised investigations into Joe Biden’s son Hunter and, separately, into a conspiracy theory that suggests Ukraine, and not Russia, was behind the 2016 election interference.
He went on: “In the absence of any credible explanation for the suspension of aid, I later came to believe that the resumption of security aid would not occur until there was a public statement from Ukraine committing to the investigations of the 2016 election and Burisma, as Mr. Giuliani had demanded.” Burisma is a reference to the Ukrainian energy firm that hired Hunter Biden to serve on its board.
Other notable takeaways from Sondland’s opening statement include his emphasis that he did not want to work with Rudy Giuliani.
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