Gordon Sondland’s Damning—But Delayed—Testimony
Gaps in the ambassador’s recollection frustrated Democrats and offered Republicans an opportunity to undermine his revelations.
by Russell Berman
Nov 20, 2019
3 minutes
Gordon Sondland this morning delivered the most damning congressional testimony against President Donald Trump since that of James Comey, the former FBI director whose firing led to a two-year investigation that consumed Trump’s presidency.
But Sondland, Trump’s ambassador to the European Union, is no Comey, whose seemingly photographic memory and extensive contemporaneous note-taking provided key evidence for Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s obstruction-of-justice probe.
“I’m not a note-taker, nor am I a memo writer. Never have been,” Sondland told the House Intelligence Committee this morning. Nor, it appears, does he have a particularly
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