Austin: US President Donald Trump said Republicans scored a victory in Wednesday's congressional hearing and he was declaring the impeachment inquiry over.
During a visit to an Apple assembly plant in Texas, Trump highlighted the testimony of Gordon Sondland, ambassador to the European Union who testified that the president wanted nothing from Ukraine.
Trump said, "Not only did we win today, it's over."
But Sondland also declared that Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani explicitly sought a "quid pro quo" with Ukraine leveraging a White House meeting for political investigations of Democrats. Sondland testified it was his understanding the president was holding up nearly US$400 million in military aid in exchange for the country's announcement of the investigations.
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