Envoy Will Testify ‘No Quid Pro’ Came from Trump

“The U.S. ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland, intends to tell Congress this week that the content of a text message he wrote denying a quid pro quo with Ukraine was relayed to him directly by President Trump in a phone call,” the Washington Post reports.

“Sondland plans to tell lawmakers he has no knowledge of whether the president was telling him the truth at that moment.”

Said a person familiar with Sondland’s testimony: “It’s only true that the president said it, not that it was the truth.”

“Sondland will hold out the possibility that Trump wasn’t truthful in his denial of a quid pro quo as well as an alternative scenario in which the president’s interest in the scheme soured.”