AP source: 2nd U.S. official heard Trump call with Sondland

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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 Trump’s 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

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Geez. Was this on speaker phone?

[DURHAM D]

1. Sondland knows as much about the rule of law as

a pig knows about Sunday.

[LastDemocratInSC]

2. Add the stupidity of using a conventional cellphone in that environment.

[jcgoldie]

3. The really shockingly stupid thing is not Sondland using a cell phone...

... but Trump doing so. Although I guess I shouldn't call it shocking when its utterly unsurprising.

[lastlib]

12. Not stupid--Vladimir's order, methinks.

[Lonestarblue]

15. Yes, no need to worry about Russia overhearing.

Trump tells Vlad everything he wants to know anyway, so Russia has no need to bother eavesdropping on his conversations, though I’m sure they do anyway since they’re totally unprotected. Any foreign government could probably listen.

[lagomorph777]

17. As proven by multiple eavesdroppers who we already know about!

And who knows how many Russians may have also been hanging around.

[PatSeg]

4. Yes, I wondering if it WAS on speaker phone

This gang of fools is dumb enough to do something like that.

[lagomorph777]

18. Given the number of people who heard Trump's voice from the phone,

probably speaker phone cranked up loud, because of the restaurant environment. Holy shit. What an idiot.

[PatSeg]

21. Seriously

So many idiots. Its amazing they haven't self-destructed sooner.

[OKNancy]

5. Yup. I bet he was all bragging about being on the phone with the POTUS

He probably did put it on speaker. Of course on his cell phone LOTS and lots of people heard it..like Russians

[2naSalit]

6. +1

[lagomorph777]

19. +2

[bigbrother05]

7. And any other Intel org operating in the Ukraine

With the EU interest in the area, lots of curious ears.

[renate]

8. Trump must talk REALLY LOUD

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]

9. 45 must have thought he was speaking above the roar of a helicopter engine...

I'm so sick of this casual offhand way of conducting state business and news conferences...

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

16. He's just following ADA guidelines

[maxsolomon]

10. LOL, Sondland is going to be thrown under a fleet of buses by President Sociopath.

At this point, his best bet is to sign on with the "not going to show up" crowd.

[grantcart]

11. Not on speaker they ran it through the restaurant public address to make

sure that the Ambassador's driver could hear it too

[djacq]

13. 1 official was bad... But a 2nd.

[AKing]

14. A true House of Cards...As more people testify,more people are going to come forward....

Witnesses are no longer going to feel like their out on a limb by themselves.

[intrepidity]

20. That is a worthy goal

To make "whistleblowing" as easy as GOP lawbreaking.