BREAKING NEWS SONDLAND BOMBSHELL: ‘WE FOLLOWED THE PRESIDENT’S ORDERS’...Sondland Says Trump Gave Him ‘Express Direction’ To Work With Giuliani On Ukraine “Everyone was in the loop,” the hotel executive said. “It was no secret.”

WASHINGTON ― The hotel executive President Donald Trump appointed as an ambassador after he donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration will testify Wednesday that Trump gave him “express direction” to work with Rudy Giuliani, who was pressuring Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden’s son. 

Gordon Sondland

“Everyone was in the loop,” Gordon Sondland plans to say, according to a copy of his opening statement. “It was no secret.”“We followed the president’s orders,” Sondland’s statement says.

The statement says he believed there was a “quid pro quo” ― that Ukrainians had to respond to Trump’s requests to get a White House call or meeting.

Sondland plans to say his goal was to get the aid released and that he was trying to “break the logjam” by having Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky issue a statement that would draw Biden into a foreign investigation and boost Trump’s 2020 election prospects. more