BRUSSELS -- Gordon D. Sondland, the blunt-spoken hotelier who is President Donald Trump's ambassador to the European Union, was boasting on Ukrainian television that Trump had honored him with a "special assignment" -- "overseeing" relations between the two countries "at
BRUSSELS — Gordon D. Sondland, the blunt-spoken hotelier who is President Donald Trump’s ambassador to the European Union, was boasting on Ukrainian television that Trump had honored him with a “special assignment” — “overseeing” relations between the two countries “at the highest levels.”
That relationship seems to have led to his apparent responsibility in Ukraine after the previous ambassador, Marie L. Yovanovitch, a career diplomat, displeased the White House and was removed several months before the end of her term. Sondland arrived in Kyiv the day of the phone call, on July 25, and has said that he spoke to Trump minutes before the call took place and then met with Zelenskiy for an hour the next morning along with Volker, who quit his role after the whistleblower’s complaint about the call was made public.
Sondland has declined to comment, referring all questions to the White House. But he seems from the messages to have been instrumental in trying to get Trump what he wanted in a fashion that would get Zelenskiy the White House meeting he wanted, as well as the unfreezing of the military aid. But Sondland told reporters last month that he saw Ukraine as among a handful of “low-hanging fruit” areas of policy where the European Union could work together with Washington.Story continuesThe July visit was the third Sondland made to Ukraine. He was in Odessa in February and in Kyiv again in May, when he attended Zelenskiy’s inauguration, which Vice President Mike Pence was ordered not to attend by Trump.
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