Sondland, nominated to his post in 2018, was among only a few dozen donors who gave $1 million or more to Trump's presidential inaugural committee in 2017.
Published 7:30 AM EST Nov 21, 2019a day of bombshell testimony by Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union at the center of the Democratic-led impeachment inquiry, President Donald Trump strenuously denied knowing the man well.nominated to his post in 2018, was among only a few dozen donors who gave $1 million or more to Trump's presidential inaugural committee in 2017.
Some of those top-tier donors wound up serving in Trump's administration along with Sondland, an Oregon man who founded San Diego businessman Doug Manchester, who gave at least $1 million to the committee, was nominated in early 2017 to serve as ambassador to the Bahamas. The White House withdrew his nomination last week.Roughly 44% of Trump's foreign service appointments are people with political ties, typically30% for President Barack Obama, according to the American Foreign Service Association.
Trump emerged from the White House early in the hearing and, reading from written notes, told reporters on the South Lawn that he didn't really know Sondland. Earlier, when asked if he used a vulgarity when telling Trump about Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky's desire to cooperate with the United States, Sondland said that sounded right.Fred Wertheimer of the Democracy 21 watchdog group said it's hard to know if Trump and Sondland spent time together at events. “But it’s also hard to believe that Trump, who was using Sondland as his intermediary for the extortion, hardly knew him,” Wertheimer said.
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