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November 6, 2019

Sondland Now Says There Was Quid Pro Quo on Ukraine
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On Capitol Hill, United States Ambassador to the European Union Gordon
Sondland now says there was a quid pro quo that preconditioned the
release of military aid to Ukraine on a Ukrainian investigation into
President Trump's political rival Joe Biden and his son. Gordon Sondland
is a wealthy hotel magnate and real estate developer in Oregon who
received the ambassadorship after donating a million dollars to Trump's
inauguration. Last month he told impeachment investigators that he
"never" thought there was a precondition on the aid. But in a sworn
statement released Tuesday, Sondland reversed himself, writing, "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."


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