Chief Democrat Witness Against Trump in Phony Ukranian Phone Call Impeachment Registers as a Foreign Agent for, Get This, Ukraine

Whoa! I did not see this coming.

On Thursday, one of the star witnesses in the first failed impeachment of President Donald Trump registered as a foreign agent on behalf of Ukraine and the European Union (EU).


According to the Daily Caller, Gordon Sondland, who served as the U.S. Ambassador to the EU from 2018 to 2020, testified against President Trump in the 2019 impeachment inry. In his testimony before the House of Representatives Select Committee on Intelligence, he claimed with no evidence that President Trump intended to withhold aid to Ukraine unless it re-opened a corruption investigation into the controversial energy company Burisma Holdings, where Joe Biden's son Hunter served on the board.


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Sondland registered as a foreign agent under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), a law first passed in 1938 dictating how foreign agents and representatives are supposed to lobby American politicians compared to non-foreign lobbyists.

In a statement shortly after his registration was revealed, Sondland tried to justify his decision while also insisting that he did not have any foreign loyalties.

"This term 'Foreign Agent.' It sounds very sinister because that's the way the FARA laws are written," said Sondland. "You're designated as a foreign agent. I'm not an agent of anyone. I haven't been asked by Ukraine or the E.U. to represent them. I'm simply having conversations that everyone has all the time with members of Congress and with members of governments of other countries to try and bridge and divide."

"My allegiance is still 100% to the United States, not to the European Union," Sondland claimed. "Unfortunately, I can't have these conversations without registering."

I'm not a foreign agent, I just have to register as a foreign agent so I can lobby US policymakers on behalf of a foreign country.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:02 PM

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