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Sondland Updates Impeachment Testimony, Describing Ukraine Quid Pro Quo

In a substantial update to his initial account, Sondland recounted how he told Ukrainian officials military aid was tied to their commitment to investigations Trump wanted. nytimes.com/2019/11/05/us/…
Sondland provided a more robust description of his own role in alerting the Ukrainians that they needed to go along with investigative requests being demanded by the president’s personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani.

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By early September, Mr. Sondland said, he had become convinced that military aid and a White House meeting were conditioned on Ukraine committing to those investigations.

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The new account suggested that Mr. Sondland may have not been completely forthcoming with Mr. Taylor, and that he was, in fact, aware that the aid was contingent upon the investigations.

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Sondland recounted how he had discussed the linkage with Andriy Yermak, a top adviser to Zelensky (sidelines of Sept. 1 meeting) between Pence and Zelensky in Warsaw. Zelensky had discussed the suspension of aid with Pence, Mr. Sondland said.

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“I said that resumption of the U.S. aid would likely not occur until Ukraine provided the public anticorruption statement that we had been discussing for many weeks,” Mr. Sondland said in the document.

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This is how the Taylor transcript starts:

THIS WHOLE HEARING IS OUT OF ORDER!
AMBASSADOR TAYLOR: "That was my clear understanding, security assistance money would not come until the President committed to pursue the investigation."
Three immediate takeaways from the Taylor transcript

P. 190: Amb Taylor says his "clear understanding" was there was a quid pro quo

P. 260: The originator of the idea was Giuliani

P. 280: Amb. Taylor says withholding military aid to Ukraine harms U.S. national security
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Surprise!

Sondland has amended his testimony to acknowledge that Ukraine's military aid was contingent upon announcing an inquiry into Hunter Biden and Burisma. I guess his lawyers explained that he was on the same path to prison that Michael Cohen took by lying to Congress.
"Gordon Sondland, a key witness in the impeachment inquiry, revealed that he told a top Ukrainian official that hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid would 'likely' be held up ...
"unless the country’s government announced investigations into President Donald Trump’s political rivals — a major reversal from his previous closed-door testimony.
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💥 #Sondland Confirms Ukraine Quid Pro Quo in NEW Updated #Impeachment Testimony: He told Ukrainian officials that US military aid was unlikely unless they publicly committed to the investigations President Trump wanted. nyti.ms/32g54V3
#Sondland discussed the linkage w/ Yermak—in Warsaw after Pence-Zelensky meeting, where Z discussed aid suspension: “I said that resumption of the US aid would likely not occur until Ukraine provided the public anticorruption statement that we had been discussing for many weeks”
🔥#Sondland describes the quid pro quo creep to Trump's demands: First, talk to Giuliani. Then it was about corruption. Then corruption wasn't enough. "We need to talk about the 2016 election & the Burisma investigations…It kept getting more insidious." intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/…
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#Impeachment Thread #1 - Hot Tip for Independent Journalists: Security Assistance to Ukraine is intrinsically tied to Ukraine Government participation in fighting corruption AND cleaning up oligarchical finance.

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#Impeachment Thread #1 - leadership on implementation of reform. As you know, our ECONOMIC SUPPORT IS TIED TO THE UKRAINIANS KEEPING THEIR COMMITMENTS, particularly in the areas of energy security, reform of the justice sector, fighting corruption, reform of the

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🔥QUID PRO QUO🔥

At least 3 officials—Bill Taylor, Fiona Hill, Gordon Sondland—told @HouseDemocrats: a WH visit for #Ukraine’s president was explicitly conditioned on his agreeing to investigations that could help Trump’s re-election.

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🚨When Trump sycophant Gordon Sondland was asked point blank, under oath, whether that constituted a "quid pro quo," even he did not dispute it.

👋🏼Hello, @GOP. Got your #QuidProQuo right here!

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After ~65 hours of testimony — along with public comments from Trump and his cronies — a “portrait is emerging of a #QuidProQuo that evolved over time, with Trump **progressively upping the ante when his demands were not met**.”

What a baby.🙄

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