Gordon Sondland returned to the House and “refreshed my recollection,” as he put it. jonathanchait writes
Photo: Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP/Shutterstock Gordon Sondland, the European Union ambassador who had been pressed into service as President Trump’s Ukraine hatchet man on account of his political pliability, testified earlier this month that while he knew President Trump was withholding a meeting with Ukraine’s president as leverage for investigations of Trump’s domestic rivals, he did not know military aid to Ukraine was also held up.
Sondland now confirms that the aid was being withheld as part of Trump’s extortion. Sondland now recalls having said exactly this on September 1 to a top adviser to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. This, by the way, blows up a favorite talking point in the conservative media: that there couldn’t have been a quid pro quo because, as Ben Shapiro put it, “Ukrainians didn’t even know military aid was being withheld.
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