Though Democrats are more confident than ever in their growing impeachment case against President Donald Trump, they're also setting their sights on a top Trump ally: Ambassador Gordon Sondland
Hill testified earlier this month that she met with NSC lawyer John Eisenberg twice, at Bolton’s urging, to relay concerns about the conversations. Both Vindman and Hill met with NSC lawyers on the same day, July 10, after Bolton cut the Danylyuk meeting short.
Sondland, who had a direct line to Trump, assured fellow ambassadors in September text messages obtained by lawmakers that Trump was not attempting to coerce Ukraine to do his bidding by withholding a White House visit or military aid. “The conventional wisdom is that perjury is tough to prove,” said constitutional law scholar Louis Michael Seidman, who teaches at Georgetown Law. “There needs to be proof that the statement is false, that there was an intent to mislead, and that people were misled. When a witness says ‘I don’t remember,’ it’s very hard to prove that they did.”
Those charges, however, were brought by Special Counsel Robert Mueller—it’s unlikely that the Justice Department would take action on a criminal referral by Democrats from an impeachment inquiry that the White House has deemed invalid.
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