Gordon Sondland testifies he took his quid pro quo concerns directly to Mike Pence

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published 20 November 2019

Depending on how things unfold, President Trump likely stands to lose the most as a result of Wednesday's impeachment inquiry testimony from Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland, but it doesn't look like Vice President Mike Pence will be let off the hook, either.

In his prepared opening statement, Sondland said he told Pence before a September meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Warsaw, Poland, that he was concerned that a delay in military aid to Kyiv "had become tied to the issue of investigations." During the meeting, Pence apparently told Zelensky he would address the aid with Trump.

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Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.

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