the subject was, i talked to zelensky just now. ambassador sondland wrote, he is prepared to receive potus call, potus, president of the united states. heth would greill turn every st unquote. mulvaney responded to the email noting that conversation a date would soon be scheduled the white house telephone call. the evidence also unam by analogously shows the ukrainiann understood this quid pro quo and had serious reservations because president zelensky won the election onle an anti-corruptio platform. inti fact, a few days before th july 25th call, ambassador william cataylor, the acting u. ambassador to.s ukraine and the
former permanent ambassador to ukraine texted ambassador sondland and kurt volker or rather he stated in his testimony on july i 20th i had phone conversation with mr. danyliuk during which he conveyed to me that president zelensky did not want toen be ud as a pawn in a u.s. re-election campaign. mr. trump s pressure campaign ou president zelensky didn t relent. then president zelensky received the message he needed to convince president trump he would do the investigations in order to get that white house meeting.t as i have described president zelensky tried to do exactly that on the july 25th call with president trump. in theit weeks following the ju 25th call, president zelensky heeded president trump s request. p sending his top aide to madrid to meet with mr. giuliani. in coordination with mr.