Gordon Sondland

Gordon David Sondland is an American businessman and former diplomat who served as the United States ambassador to the European Union from 2018 to 2020, and was a central figure in the 2019 Trump–Ukraine scandal which lead to the first impeachment of Donald Trump. In November 2019, he testified as a witness at the impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump. After refusing to resign, Sondland was fired by Trump on February 7, 2020, two days after the conclusion of Trump's impeachment trial. A lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations, he is the founder and chairman of Provenance Hotels.