Trump publicly declares he blocked ambassador from testifying before Congress
Donald Trump said he prevented the US ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland, from testifying to congressional impeachment hearings, calling them a “kangaroo court”.Democrats leading the impeachment investigation said Sondland’s lawyers were called by a state department official after midnight, leaving a voicemail message ordering him not to attend Tuesday’s hearings.
“We consider this interference to be obstruction of the impeachment inquiry,” the statement said, adding that the committees would be issuing subpoenas to Sondland for his testimony and documents. Republicans are pushing for equal rights as the minority party to issue subpoenas, and the White House has said it will not respond to subpoenas until such rights are granted.
“The American people have the right to know if the president is acting in their interests, in the nation’s interest, and not in his narrow personal, political interests,” Schiff told reporters after the presidential tweets. “Indeed, the American people have a need to know.” In his morning tweets, Trump pointed to a text message Sondland had sent to the acting US ambassador in Ukraine , in which Sondland said: “I believe you are incorrect about President Trump’s intentions. The president has been crystal clear: no quid pro quo’s of any kind.”
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