US Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland named rapper A$AP Rocky several times throughout his testimony in the impeachment inquiry.
When you think of rapper A$AP Rocky, impeachment hearings probably don't come to mind. And yet, Rocky, real name Rakim Mayers, was a surprise focal point of testimony made by US Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland during the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump on Wednesday.
Rocky spent a month in a Swedish jail after he was detained in July over an altercation in Stockholm. He was found guilty of assault on August 14. He was released from custody on August 2 after President Donald Trump lobbied for his release, and was not ordered to return. Later in the testimony, when Democratic counsel Daniel Goldman asked why he had not mentioned the July 26 call in his initial closed-door testimony.
Sondland said he had later remember the call, thanks to the rapper being mentioned:"What triggered my memory was someone's reference to A$AP Rocky." He said the phone call mostly focused on Rocky being in jail, and not Ukraine military aid.
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