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| | | In devastating testimony before the House Intelligence Committee, the hotel executive President Donald Trump appointed as an ambassador after he donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration said that Trump gave him “express direction” to work with Rudy Giuliani, who was pressuring Ukraine to announce an investigation of former Vice President Joe Biden’s son.
“Everyone was in the loop,” Trump donor turned Ambassador Gordon Sondland said. “It was no secret … the suggestion that we were engaged in some irregular or rogue diplomacy is absolutely false.”
Sondland’s testimony implicated Trump and a number of top administration officials in the scheme to exchange official acts for millions of dollars in U.S. government funds. Sondland said Giuliani, who spoke for the president, wanted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to announce an investigation into the company Burisma, which included Hunter Biden on its board.
“He didn’t actually have to do them, as I understood it,” Sondland testified, confirming that the key interest of the Trump administration was a public announcement that would damage Biden’s campaign rather than an actual investigation aimed at combating corruption. |
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| | | | | | | | | Former Ohio state Sen. Nina Turner, a co-chair and top surrogate for Bernie Sanders’ 2020 Democratic presidential campaign, tore into South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg during a fundraiser for Sanders downtown on Tuesday. In her speech, she criticized Buttigieg for not being able to “take care of the needs of Black folks in your own city” let alone the entire country. |
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| | President Donald Trump told reporters Wednesday that Ambassador Gordon Sondland’s testimony to the House Intelligence Committee earlier that day ― testimony that directly implicated Trump in a corruption scheme ― had in fact vindicated him, and that it was time for the impeachment hearings to end.
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| | Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) says he’d like to hear from controversial senior White House policy adviser Stephen Miller following the release of leaked emails that appear to show Miller promoting white nationalist ideas. |
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