US Ambassador under the EU Gordon Sondland will perform in Congress at the Presidential Imperial hearings

The US Ambassador under the EU Gordon Sondland will perform in Congress at the President Donald Trump's impeachment, although earlier the State Department refused to allow him to act, the Axios portal said, citing sources in Congress.

According to him, the Republicans in the Congress achieved Sondland’s speech, saying that it will help protect the president. It is assumed that Sondland will perform on Wednesday on October 16 behind closed doors, like previous witnesses. "Republicans are looking for any clue that they can get," said one of the interlocutors of the publication. According to him, Sondland, who is the man of Trump and donating $ 1 million to his inauguration, could become such a “clue”.

Sondland was summoned to Congress after the former special representative of the State Department in Ukraine Kurt Walker called him an intermediary in the alleged attempts of lawyer Trump Rudy Juliani to force Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden. In particular, in the correspondence, which was introduced by Volker, one of the American diplomats states that the United States delay military assistance to Ukraine, trying to achieve political benefits for Trump. In response, Sondland said that he misunderstood the president, and no exchange of services between the United States and Ukraine was provided.

Trump wrote on Twitter that he did not want Sondland to testify on the "fully compromised court." The White House officially refused to cooperate with the impeachment investigation, calling it illegitimate.

In the coming week, the Congress’s testimony should be made by the ex-USP of the USA in Kiev Marie Jovanovich , the former chief specialist of the White House in Russia Fiona Hill, the first deputy assistant to Secretary of State George Kent, as well as the legal adviser of the State Department Ulrich Brekhbul.

Earlier, representatives of the Democratic Party in Congress began the process of impeachment Trump, suspecting him that he for personal political goals sought the Ukrainian leadership of the investigation against Hunter Bayden, who worked in the Burisma energy company. Hunter's father, former Vice President Joe Biden publicly stated that he had achieved from the Ukrainian authorities the dismissal of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Viktor Shokin, who had previously been investigating Burisma beneficiary. Biden denies the presence of any connection between the dismissal of Shokin and the work of his son. Democrats believe that Trump threatened Ukraine with a delay in military assistance if an investigation was not conducted against Biden.