Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, arrives for testimony before House impeachment investigators, on Capitol Hill, in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 17, 2019.Testimony by two of the “three amigos” charged with running Ukraine policy for President Donald Trump will be made public on Tuesday as Democratic-led congressional committees release more transcripts from their impeachment investigation.
Tuesday’s will be the second public release of testimony in the impeachment investigation of Trump that Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi formally launched on Sept. 24. The House investigation is focused on a July 25 phone call in which Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, a leading Democratic rival as Trump seeks re-election in November 2020.Trump froze nearly $400-million in U.S. military assistance to Ukraine shortly before speaking to Zelensky, prompting accusations from Democrats that he had misused U.S. foreign policy for personal gain.
According to accounts of their testimony already public, both Sondland and Volker discussed communications between Trump’s private attorney, Rudy Giuliani, and Ukrainian officials with House investigators.Story continues below advertisement
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