Washington • A big donor to President Donald Trump, whom Trump later named the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, testified Wednesday that he believed there was a “quid pro quo” demand from the White House for Ukraine to announced investigations into political rivals to gain much-needed military aid and a meeting with Trump.
House Democrats seized on the testimony as proof that those trying to get Ukraine leaders to look for dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden were acting at the direction of Trump.
“It was the conditioning of official acts to something of great value to the president,” declared House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif.