A lawyer for U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland told The Wall Street Journal that Sondland told impeachment committee members that President Trump’s dealings with Ukraine amounted to a quid pro quo.
Sondland’s lawyer Robert Luskin told the news outlet that Sondland revealed to House committees that he thought a meeting between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky would take place only if the country agreed to investigate corruption allegations about his political rivals.
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When a lawmaker asked Sondland if he believed this arrangement was a quid pro quo, Sondland said he believed so but warned that he was not a lawyer, Luskin told the newspaper.
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Luskin told the Journal that Sondland would probably return if he were asked to do so.
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Sondland told the House that Trump's Ukraine pressure was a quid pro quo: report https://t.co/GTQcrTu0eb pic.twitter.com/fZffU9IVrl
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