A top US diplomat has told an impeachment inquiry that he followed President Donald Trump’s orders to put pressure on Ukraine to investigate his Democratic rival, Joe Biden.
The instruction came from Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, Ambassador Gordon Sondland said.
Sondland, the US ambassador to the EU, told the latest hearing in the US House of Representatives that Giuliani had sought a public statement from Ukraine’s leader, Volodymyr Zelensky, announcing an inquiry into “corruption issues”.
Giuliani specifically mentioned the company Burisma – which had the son of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, Hunter, as a board member – and issues surrounding the 2016 US presidential election, he said.
In his opening statement, he said he had worked with Giuliani “at the express direction of the president”. While he is the US ambassador to the EU, Sondland said his brief included work on…
Source: Vanguard Newspaper
