Here's why A$AP Rocky keeps getting mentioned at the Trump impeachment hearings.
A$AP Rocky, who was famously detained in Sweden over the summer, was mentioned repeatedly during the second week of the House impeachment hearings.
The American hip-hop star was charged with assault on July 25 and when Sondland spoke with Trump a day later, his highly-publicized trial was only days away. The rapper's case sparked outrage in the hip-hop community and in Hollywood and even on Capitol Hill, where the rapper's congressman and members of the Congressional Black Caucus rallied to call for his release.
Holmes mentioned A$AP Rocky's case during his public testimony on Thursday and described what he said was an exchange between Sondland and Trump about the rapper. About two months after A$AP Rocky was detained, the case took a positive turn when Swedish prosecutors announced on Aug. 2 that the hip-hop star and his companions were allowed to return to the United States as they deliberated.A$AP Rocky released from prison and on his way home to the United States from Sweden. It was a Rocky Week, get home ASAP A$AP!
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