The most anticipated of public impeachment hearings, with EU ambassador Gordon Sondland, takes place on the same day as the fifth Democratic debate.
Published 7:25 PM EST Nov 19, 2019A wealthy hotelier from Portland, Oregon, seems an unlikely figure to be at the center of a shadowy foreign policy operation aimed at pressuring the new leader of Ukraine to do a “favor” that just might help President Trump’s reelection. But Gordon Sondland, who was appointed ambassador to the European Union after donating $1 million to Trump’s inaugural committee, could well turn out to be the single most crucial witness in his impeachment.
Regardless of what happens then, hours later attention will shift from him to a stage in Atlanta, where the 10 leading contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination will face off in their fifth debate. It will be less than three months before the opening Iowa caucuses begin the process of determining who will take on Trump in 2020, and just weeks before the House of Representatives is expected to vote on articles of impeachment.
The first impeachment in U.S. history of a president in the process of running for reelection has created a complicated melodrama that has dominated the news and exhausted much of the electorate.Demonstrators kneel near large banners on the lawn adjacent to the U.S. Capitol, while a top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine William Taylor, and career Foreign Service officer George Kent, testify before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov.
Sondland reportedly talked directly to Trump, and about the military aid, in an extraordinary conversation on July 26, the day after Trump had talked with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and asked for a"favor." A White House summary of that call shows Trump urging Zelensky to investigate the business dealings of Hunter Biden and an unfounded conspiracy theory that Ukraine, not Russia, had been behind meddling in the 2016 election.
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