This is coming straight from his mouth…
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko said Thursday that Gordon Sondland, the U.S. Ambassador to the E.U., “never” related U.S. aid to the Ukrainian investigations into the 2016 elections or the involvement of Biden in preventing a Burisma probe.
Prystaiko spoke as part of the “impeachment inquiry” the day after the first public hearings, where two witnesses said they came to realize that such a connection had occurred — although only a while after Politico stated on August 28 that the Trump administration had suspended aid.
One of the plaintiffs, diplomatic official Bill Taylor, brought new information that a staffer recently told him that the day after Trump’s telephone call with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky on July 25, the staffer overheard Sondland talking with President Donald Trump about “investigations.” The staffer also said that Sondland claimed Trump was more concerned about investigations.
Prystaiko said on Thursday that there was no connection at the time with Sondland in negotiations, as confirmed by Reuters:
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko said on Thursday that U.S. ambassador Gordon Sondland did not explicitly link military aid to Kiev with opening an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Interfax Ukraine reported.
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“Ambassador Sondland did not tell us, and certainly did not tell me, about a connection between the assistance and the investigations. You should ask him,” Prystaiko said about Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union.
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“I have never seen a direct relationship between investigations and security assistance,” Prystaiko was quoted as saying by Interfax. “Yes, the investigations were mentioned, you know, in the conversation of the presidents. But there was no clear connection between these events.”
In his last month’s closed-door testimony, released several days ago by the House Intelligence Committee, Sondland told the committee that he had met regularly with Prystaiko as well as other Ukrainian officials.
Sondland is expected to testify at next week’s public hearings.
Failed collusion, failed obstruction, failed quid pro quo, failed bribery, failed (what’s next). Democrats are a waste of tax payers money. Who votes for these incompetent leaders? Incompetent voters?
Roger Mann The short and only answer is no! The democrats can spin it anyway they want but they can’t explain what President Trump did no more than those two clowns Kent and Taylor could when Congressman Ratcliffe asked them if they could point out an impeachable offense committed by President Trump? They could only remain silent and dumbfounded because they were asked a question they weren’t prepared for! Kent, Taylor and Marie Yovanovitch were all coached, prepped and most likely the papers they had in front of them were prepared scripts on how to answer certain questions, I am sure no one checked! AMERICA what do you think they were doing behind closed doors? As always when someone tries to deceive they are bound to screw up at some point and the democrats have screwed up several times already, starting with Adam Schiff’s LIE (not parody) he only called it that after he was called out, about President Trump’s phone call with the President of Ukraine!
READ THE TRANSCRIPT PELOSI, SO YOU CAN FIND OUT WHAT’S IN IT!
Not incompetent voters, but misguided liberals who can’t seem to recognize truth.
The short and only answer is no! The democrats can spin it anyway they want but they can’t explain what President Trump did no more than those two clowns Kent and Taylor could when Congressman Ratcliffe asked them if they could point out an impeachable offense committed by President Trump? They could only remain silent and dumbfounded because they were asked a question they weren’t prepared for! Kent, Taylor and Marie Yovanovitch were all coached, prepped and most likely the papers they had in front of them were prepared scripts on how to answer certain questions, I am sure no one checked! AMERICA what do you think they were doing behind closed doors? As always when someone tries to deceive they are bound to screw up at some point and the democrats have screwed up several times already, starting with Adam Schiff’s LIE (not parody) he only called it that after he was called out, about President Trump’s phone call with the President of Ukraine!
READ THE TRANSCRIPT PELOSI, SO YOU CAN FIND OUT WHAT’S IN IT!