Jay Leno, A$AP Rocky and the Kardashians each got name-checked during Thursday’s impeachment hearings – albeit as supporting players in the testimony. David Holmes, a top diplomat in Uk…
David Holmes, a top diplomat in Ukraine, testified that Jay Leno was among the guests at a June 4 dinner that Ambassador Gordon Sondland hosted for the new president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky. Other guests were Jared Kushner, a State Department official and European Union officials.
Later in his testimony, Holmes recounted a lunch he had with Sondland on July 26. At that time, Sondland called Trump, and Holmes said he could hear the president’s voice through the earpiece. “I could only hear Ambassador Sondland’s side of that part of the conversation,” Holmes said. “Ambassador Sondland told the president that the rapper was ‘kind of f*cked there,’ and ‘should have pled guilty.’ He recommended that the president ‘wait until after the sentencing or it will make it worse,’ adding that the president should ‘let him get sentenced, play the racism card, give him a ticker-tape when he comes home.
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