Trump fires key impeachment witness Gordon Sondland as EU ambassador

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• Gordon Sondland, the US's ambassador to the EU, became the second impeachment witness to be fired on Friday. 
• Sondland was ousted not long after Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, another crucial witness to President Donald Trump's Ukraine dealings, was abruptly fired and escorted from the White House. 
• "I was advised today that the President intends to recall me effective immediately as United States Ambassador to the European Union," Sondland said in a statement. 
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Gordon Sondland was abruptly recalled as the US's ambassador to the European Union on Friday.

Sondland was the second witness who testified against President Donald Trump in last year's impeachment hearings to be dismissed from his position on Friday. Sondland will continue working at the State Department in an unspecified role.

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