"The president ordered pressure on Ukraine"

He admits he worked with Rudolph Giuliani by order of the president Donald Trump to put pressure onUkraine. The US ambassador to the EU, Gordon Sondland, sacks the sack. Trump would have ordered the "quid pro quo" to be prosecuted through Giuliani, linking the visit of the Ukrainian president to the White House and aid to Kiev to start investigating his political rivals. This is what emerges from the initial declarations that the diplomat is preparing to make at the beginning of his testimony in the Chamber.

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"Giuliani – says Sondland – asked that Ukraine make a public statement announcing investigations" both on the 2016 US presidential election and on the Burisma, the company in which the son of former vice president Joe Biden worked. "Giuliani was expressing a wish from the president and we knew that these investigations were important to the president," adds Sondland, who talks about an email he sent to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, energy secretary Rick Perry and chief of staff of the White House Mick Mulvaney to inform them that he had spoken with Zelensky and that he intended to start "transparent investigations". The mail was on 19 July, a week before the phone call between Trump and Zelensky.

"I acted in good faith following the directives of the president": the US ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland defended himself thus deposing in the investigation of impeachment to the House, stating that he had been against the blockade of US aid in Kiev at the time when he learned that he was linked to the opening of an investigation into the Biden. "We weren't happy with Trump's order to talk to Rudy Giuliani. We didn't want his involvement. I thought, and I think, that it is the men and women of the State Department, and not the president's personal lawyer, who must take responsibility for Ukrainian affairs, "he said.

"We could abandon our efforts to plan a phone call and a visit to the White House between Trump and Zelensky, which was undoubtedly in the interest of our foreign policy, or do as Trump had ordered. We chose the second road, not because we liked it, but because it was the only constructive way for us, "he added.


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