AP source: 2nd U.S. official heard Trump call with Sondland
Source: PBS
WASHINGTON (AP) A second U.S. embassy staffer in Kyiv overheard a key cellphone call between President Donald Trump and his ambassador to the European Union discussing the need for Ukrainian officials to pursue investigations, The Associated Press has learned.
The July 26 call between Trump and Gordon Sondland was first described during testimony Wednesday by William Taylor, the acting U.S. ambassador to Ukraine. Taylor said one of his staffers overhead the call while Sondland was in a restaurant the day after Trumps call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that triggered the House impeachment inquiry.
The second diplomatic staffer also at the table was Suriya Jayanti, a foreign service officer based in Kyiv. A person briefed on what Jayanti overheard spoke to AP on condition of anonymity to discuss a matter under investiga
Read more: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/ap-source-2nd-u-s-official-heard-trump-call-with-sondland
Geez. Was this on speaker phone?
DURHAM D
(32,617 posts)a pig knows about Sunday.
LastDemocratInSC
(3,656 posts)jcgoldie
(11,656 posts)... but Trump doing so. Although I guess I shouldn't call it shocking when its utterly unsurprising.
lastlib
(23,356 posts)Lonestarblue
(10,138 posts)Trump tells Vlad everything he wants to know anyway, so Russia has no need to bother eavesdropping on his conversations, though Im sure they do anyway since theyre totally unprotected. Any foreign government could probably listen.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)And who knows how many Russians may have also been hanging around.
PatSeg
(47,711 posts)This gang of fools is dumb enough to do something like that.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)probably speaker phone cranked up loud, because of the restaurant environment. Holy shit. What an idiot.
PatSeg
(47,711 posts)So many idiots. Its amazing they haven't self-destructed sooner.
OKNancy
(41,832 posts)He probably did put it on speaker. Of course on his cell phone LOTS and lots of people heard it..like Russians
bigbrother05
(5,995 posts)With the EU interest in the area, lots of curious ears.
renate
(13,776 posts)Not only could people overhear him on a phone held to someone else's ear (assuming even Sondland wasn't dumb enough to put it on speaker), they could overhear him on a phone held to someone else's ear in a restaurant.
No Vested Interest
(5,167 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,601 posts)maxsolomon
(33,449 posts)At this point, his best bet is to sign on with the "not going to show up" crowd.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)sure that the Ambassador's driver could hear it too
djacq
(1,634 posts)AKing
(511 posts)Witnesses are no longer going to feel like their out on a limb by themselves.
intrepidity
(7,346 posts)To make "whistleblowing" as easy as GOP lawbreaking.