Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, disagreed with President Trump’s decision to delegate critical foreign policy on Ukraine to his personal lawyer, Rudolph Giuliani.
Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, disagreed with President Trump’s decision to delegate critical foreign policy on Ukraine to his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, according to his opening statement to congressional investigators, released in advance of his appearance Thursday in the House impeachment inquiry.
“I understand that some people may have their own specific agendas: some may want me to say things to protect the president at all costs; some may want me to provide damning facts to support the other side,” Sondland said, emphasizing he had not previously shared his statement with administration officials. “I am NOT here to push an agenda. I am here to tell the truth.”
In his opening statement, the ambassador said all of his work on Ukraine had Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s “blessing,” but that the president repeatedly directed him to coordinate with Giuliani.Sondland, a major donor to Trump during his presidential campaign, said Giuliani should not have been entrusted with the sensitive U.S.-Ukraine relationship, and suggested he may have had ulterior political motives, though Sondland said he was not aware of them at the time.
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