Who Are The Three Amigos?

 The Three Amigos is:  (from the Dallas News):

"the name Sondland gave to himself; Perry, the former Texas governor; and Kurt Volker, another diplomat, as the group overseeing U.S.-Ukraine relations."

Basically, these three men took over for the career diplomats working in Ukraine to carry out Trump and Giuliani's behalf to try to get Ukraine president Zelensky to conduct an investigation of Hunter Biden in exchange for a meeting with president Trump and for the release of the funding for Ukraine's military.  It's a name they called themselves.

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Rick Perry, former Texas Governor, who still heads the Energy Department (though he has announced his resignation), the agency he wanted to abolish.

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Gordon Sondland a hotel owner who was appointed as Ambassador to the European Union after donating $1 million for a ticket to the Trump inauguration.

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Kurt Volker, (from The Hill:)

"Volker began his career as a CIA officer before working as a foreign service officer for the State Department during the Reagan administration. He was appointed as U.S. ambassador to NATO in 2008 by President George W. Bush. 

“Based on multiple readouts of the meetings recounted to me by various U.S. officials, Ambassadors Volker and Sondland reportedly provided advice to the Ukrainian leadership about how to ‘navigate’ the demands that the President had made of Mr. Zelensky,” the whistleblower wrote in the formal complaint."

I'd note that Sondland testified yesterday that he and the others didn't agree with the president's demand for an investigation on Hunter Biden, they felt that the President wouldn't budge, and thus the best way to get the funding released to Ukraine was to get Zelensky to comply.


Here's a brief clip from the original Three Amigos.