Testimony by former National Security Council aide ties Trump closer to pressure on Ukraine

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By LISA MASCARO, MARY CLARE JALONICK and MICHAEL BALSAMO | AP

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Sun, 2019-11-17 06:26

WASHINGTON: Gordon Sondland, President Donald Trump’s emissary to the European Union, had a message when he met with a top Ukrainian official.
Sondland said vital US military assistance to Ukraine might be freed up if the country’s top prosecutor “would go to the mike and announce that he was opening the Burisma investigation,” a US official told lawmakers. Burisma is the gas company in Ukraine where Democrat Joe Biden’s son Hunter served on the board.

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