On the first day of the public impeachment hearing, acting U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, Bill Taylor added new information to his previous testimony that can only be described as devastating to Donald Trump.
In his opening statement, Taylor spoke of a meeting the day after Trump’s now-infamous phone call with the president of Ukraine. At that meeting in Kyiv, Ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland spoke with President Trump by phone. An aide to Taylor could overhear Trump on the phone call. Trump was asking Sondland about the status of the “investigations.”
According to The Washington Post:
“Taylor said that after the call, the aide asked Sondland what Trump thought about Ukraine and Sondland said that Trump cares “more about the investigations of Biden” that the president’s personal attorney, Rudolph W. Giuliani, “was pressing for.”
Taylor said he had not provided this account to impeachment investigators during his Oct. 22 deposition because his staff member only told him about the episode last Friday.“