{"id":973631,"date":"2019-11-20T19:50:14","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T02:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=915715"},"modified":"2019-11-20T19:50:14","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T02:50:14","slug":"gordon-sondland-recalls-aap-rocky-discussion-with-trump-during-impeachment-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/gordon-sondland-recalls-aap-rocky-discussion-with-trump-during-impeachment-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Gordon Sondland Recalls A$AP Rocky Discussion With Trump During Impeachment Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/10481345a.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>EU Ambassador <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/gordon-sondland\/\" id=\"auto-tag_gordon-sondland\" data-tag=\"gordon-sondland\">Gordon Sondland<\/a> said that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/aap-rocky\/\" id=\"auto-tag_aap-rocky\" data-tag=\"aap-rocky\">A$AP Rocky<\/a> was \u201cprimarily discussed\u201d during a July phone call with President Trump while Sondland was in a Kiev restaurant. At the time, the rapper was being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/asap-rocky-sweden-detention-explained-859138\/\">detained in Sweden<\/a>. Sondland revealed details about the conversation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-news\/sondland-impeachment-testimony-summary-915696\/\">during his testimony<\/a> at the House impeachment hearing on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Sondland, who did not mention the July call in his initial deposition, said his memory of the conversation was jogged after other witnesses referenced the rapper being discussed. \u201cOther witnesses have recently shared their recollection of overhearing the call,\u201d he said during the hearing. \u201cIt\u2019s true that the president speaks loudly at times and it is also true \u2014 I think we primarily discussed A$AP Rocky.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In July, the rapper was arrested in Sweden and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/asap-rocky-assault-sweden-863275\/\">charged with assault<\/a> following an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/asap-rocky-arrested-sweden-suspected-assault-855193\/\">altercation with two men<\/a> in the street. Later that month, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West reached out to Trump to intervene. In August, A$AP Rocky was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/asap-rocky-guilty-assault-sweden-871440\/\">found guilty<\/a> of assault In Sweden, but did not face additional jail time.<\/p>\n<p>Sondland recalled that he was in a restaurant in Kiev, and added, \u201cI have no reason to doubt that this conversation included the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-news\/gordon-sondland-testifies-quid-pro-quo-908454\/\">subject of investigations<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, U.S. diplomat David Holmes testified that he had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-news\/david-holmes-confirms-overhearing-trump-ukraine-phone-call-913628\/\">overheard Sondland and Trump<\/a> discussing A$AP Rocky as well as hearing them discuss a possible Ukrainian investigation into the Bidens.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/gordon-sondlan-asap-rocky-trump-impeachment-hearing-915715\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland said that A$AP Rocky was \u201cprimarily discussed\u201d during a July phone call with President Trump while Sondland was in a Kiev restaurant. At the time, the rapper was being detained in Sweden. Sondland revealed details about the conversation during his testimony at the House impeachment hearing on Wednesday. Sondland, who did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973631","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 22:20:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}