“It’s also true that we discussed A$AP Rocky.” “It’s true that the President speaks loudly at times,” Sondland said in his opening statement. It could have been the Bidens, it could have been any number of things. Referring to his July 26 phone call with the President in which Trump spoke so loudly a State Department employee sitting with Sondland overheard the President allegedly saying “So he’s going to do the investigation,” Sondland said he couldn’t quite remember what he and the President discussed. Then Sondland threw in a few references seemingly designed to light up the Twitterverse.
“Everyone was in the loop,” he said of President Trump’s push to get the Ukrainian president to announce an investigation into his political rival, Joe Biden. On Wednesday morning, his freckled, bald pate glinting under the bright lights, a smirking Gordon Sondland, American ambassador to the European Union, took his turn testifying in the impeachment hearings-then gleefully tossed a half dozen administration members under the bus.
