The President of the United States of America (USA) Donald Trump denied that he asked the American ambassador to the European Union (EU) Gordon Sondland about the investigations in Ukraine, the day after he had a telephone conversation with the Ukrainian president on July 25.
Taylor testified that one of his subordinates overheard Sondland talking to Trump on the phone on July 26.
Sondland called Trump from his cell phone, and the diplomat heard the US president ask about "investigations."
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Trump denied knowledge of the conversation, saying it was "the first he heard about it."
An official familiar with the developments said the official Taylor is referring to is David Holmes, a political adviser at the US Embassy in Kyiv.
Holmes has been called to testify before Congress on Friday.
The impeachment process of Trump was initiated by the Democrats in the House of Representatives when it was learned that the US President, in a telephone conversation on July 25, pressured the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, to investigate Trump's rival, Joseph Biden, a possible Democratic candidate in the 2020 presidential elections.
Trump asked Zelensky to investigate whether Biden, as US vice president, stopped the Ukrainian prosecutor's investigation into the gas company "Burisma" whose board of directors was his son Hunter, as well as the investigation into Hunter Biden's business in that company and Ukrainian interference in the US elections. in 2016.
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