Aide testifies Ambassador Sondland told President Trump that Ukraine leader would 'do anything you ask him to'
Savannah BehrmannWASHINGTON – David Holmes, the State Department official who overheard a key conversation between President Donald Trump and Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland, told lawmakers during a closed-door deposition Friday that Sondland assured Trump that Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky “loves your ass” and would do “anything you ask him to” when asked about investigations he sought.
Holmes’ opening statement, which was first reported by CNN and confirmed by other outlets, recounted how he overheard the phone conversation between Sondland and Trump at a restaurant in Ukraine’s capital on July 26, just a day after the conversation between the two foreign leaders at the center of the inquiry.
Evidence of the phone conversation was first brought-up during the public testimony of Ambassador Bill Taylor, the top diplomat in Ukraine, on Wednesday, where he testified a member of his staff, now known to be Holmes, was with Sondland at the restaurant and overheard the conversation. Holmes also told lawmakers that when he asked Sondland"if it was true that the President did not 'give a s--- about Ukraine", Sondland replied that Trump only cared about"big stuff" that benefited Trump, like the investigations into the Bidens led by Rudy Giuliani, Trump's personal lawyer.Sondland has already amended his testimony from his closed-door deposition a few weeks ago, and did not mention this conversation to investigators.
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