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US Envoy: Ukraine Aid Would Not Be Released Without Investigations to Help
Trump

Ken Bredemeier

   A key U.S. diplomat told impeachment investigators targeting President
   Donald Trump that he came to believe that nearly $400 million in U.S.
   military aid to Ukraine would not be released unless Kyiv publicly
   stated it would launch investigations to help Trump politically.

   In revised testimony released Tuesday, Gordon Sondland, the U.S.
   ambassador to the European Union, told the impeachment investigators in
   the House of Representatives that he warned an aide to Ukrainian
   President Volodymyr Zelenskiy at a Sept. 1 meeting in Warsaw "that
   resumption of U.S. aid would likely not occur until Ukraine provided
   the public anti-corruption statement that we had been discussing for
   many weeks."

   Sondland, a major donor to Trump's 2017 inauguration celebration, was
   referring to Trump's demand in a late July call with Zelenskiy that
   Ukraine investigate one of his chief 2020 Democratic presidential
   rivals, former Vice President Joe Biden, his son Hunter Biden's work
   for a Ukrainian natural gas company and any evidence that Ukraine
   meddled in Trump's 2016 election that sent him to the White House.

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