U.S. Ambassador to the EU (2018-2020); testified to quid pro quo in Ukraine affair
Background
Gordon Sondland is a hotelier and major Republican donor who served as U.S. Ambassador to the European Union from 2018 to February 2020, after donating $1 million to Donald Trump’s 2017 inaugural committee. During the Ukraine impeachment investigation, Sondland initially testified there was no quid pro quo, then filed revised testimony acknowledging he understood that U.S. military aid to Ukraine was conditioned on Volodymyr Zelenskyy announcing investigations targeting the Bidens. In an October 2019 House deposition, he stated, “Everyone was in the loop.” Trump fired him two days after the Senate’s first impeachment acquittal in February 2020.
