Pompeo was 'in the loop' on Trump's Ukraine pressure campaign, Sondland says
On Wednesday, Pompeo became a key figure in those hearings.
And that effort was done at Trump's explicit behest with the awareness and cooperation of the State Department's leader, Pompeo, and other official members of the U.S. foreign policy establishment, said Sondland, a hotelier who was appointed ambassador after donating $1 million to Trump's inauguration.
Sondland's statement — which mentions Pompeo by name 19 times over 23 pages — effectively says that the pressure campaign on Ukraine was not some kind of rogue operation conducted by Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani. The ambassador said he later learned, in July, that White House had suspended almost $400 million in congressionally appropriated military aid to Ukraine, which for the past several years has been fighting Russian-backed separatists.
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