William Taylor, our Envoy to the Ukraine, testified today that Trump withheld aid until Ukraine agreed to investigate Biden. Seems like between that and Trumps acting CoS admitted that he did that this is pretty open-and-shut.
Quote:
Sondland told Taylor he made a mistake earlier by telling the Ukrainian’s that a WH meeting with Zelensky “was dependent on a public announcement of the investigations.”
“In fact, Sondland said ‘everything’ was dependent on such an announcement, including security assistance.”
Quote:
“Ambassador Sondland tried to explain to me that President Trump is a businessman. When a businessman is about to sign a check to someone who owes him something, he said, the businessman asks that person to pay up before signing the check.”