Ambassador Sondland: 'We followed the president’s orders'

Ambassador Sondland: 'We followed the president’s orders'
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David Badash
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 The New Civil Rights Movement
November 20, 2019

Gordon Sondland will say in sworn testimony before Congress that he “followed the President’s orders” to extort a quid pro quo and engage in a bribery scheme with Ukraine, according to the text of his opening remarks his attorney has released ahead of his testimony Wednesday morning.

“Mr. Giuliani’s requests were a quid pro quo for arranging a White House visit,” Sondland will say, CNBC reports.

“Mr. Giuliani was expressing the desires of the President of the United States, and we knew that these investigations were important to the President.”

Sondland will also say, “we followed the president’s orders” to work with Giuliani, Bloomberg adds.

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