quid pro quo, s no this for tha before then demanding precisely that quid pro quo. immediately after thispr phone call with president trump, this was the precise message that ambassador sondland passed ed directly to president zelensky. according to ambassador taylor, ambassador sondland also said he had talked to president zelensky ando mr. yermak and told them that although this was not a quid pro quo, if n president zelensky did notsi clear thingsp in public we would be at a stalemate. and i understood a stalemate tha to mean ukraine would not receive the muchin needed mility assistance. needing the military assistance and hoping for the white house meeting president zelensky finally relented to president trump s pressure campaign and arrangements were soon made for the ukrainian president m to ma a statement during an interview on cnn where he would make a public announcement of the two
investigations that president trump wanted. in order for president zelensky to secure the white house meeting and forit ukraine to ge that much needed military assistance. although there is no doubt that president trump had ordered the military aid heldd up until th ukrainians committed to the investigations, on october 17th acting chief of staff mick mulvaney confirmed in public that there was such a quid pro quo. let squ watch what he said. those were the driving factors. he also mentioned to me in the past that the corruption related to the dncti server? absolutely. no question abouter that. but that s. that s why we held up the money. there was a report. the demand for an an investigation into the democrats was part of the reason he was withholding funds to ukraine. the look back to what happened in 2016 certainly was part of the thing he was worried about ine corruption with that
president zelensky at the beginning of julyze urging him reference investigations associated with the giuliani factor with president trump. in meetings at the white house on julys 10th, ambassador sondlandba told other u.s. officials andot two of president zelensky s advisers that he had an agreement with acting chief of staff mick mulvaney that the white house visit would be scheduled if ukraine announced the u investigations. onein witness testified that during the second of the meetings, ambassador sondland began to, review what the deliverable would be in order to get the meeting, referring to an investigation of theer bidens. the witness told the committee that the request was explicit, there was no ambiguity. and he mentioned the company
stated that president trump expressed hist shared commitme to quote, root out corruption unquote, president trump, in t fact, did not mention corruptioe at all on this call, just like he did not mention corruption on the july 25th call.ca shortly after this call, president trump asked vice president mike pence to attend president zelensky s inauguration. but on may 13th, president trump did an about-face and directed vice president pence not to attend. an adviser to vice president pence said the inauguration had not yet been scheduled and therefore the reason for the abrupt change of plans of not related to any scheduling issues.ch what had happened between the three weeks between app 21st and may 13th when vice president pence was first invited or disinvited or removed from the delegation. a few t things.fe on april 25th, vice president
powers of his office for personal political gain. and you have to look at all of the evidence in context as a whole. prior to the call, the president had removed the former ambassador marie yovanovitch to clear theor way for his three hand-picked agents to spearhead his corrupt agenda in ukraine. secretary perry, ambassador sondland and ambassador kurt volker, all of whom attended president zelensky s inauguration on may 20th, all political appointees, they proved to be more than willing to engaging what dr. hill later described as an improper domestic political errand for the president. on april 21st president zelensky won the ukrainian election with 73% of the vote. he t had two primary platforms. to resolve the war in the east with russia. and to root out corruption. that same day president trump called toe congratulate him on his win. even though the white house press release following the call