What was the extortion demand? Let's here what was said.
His testimony:
5. Also, I now do recall a conversation on September 1, 2019, in Warsaw with Mr. Yermak. This brief pull-aside conversation followed the larger meeting involving Vice President Pence and President Zelensky, in which President Zelensky had raised the issue of the suspension of U.S. aid to Ukraine directly with Vice President Pence. After that large meeting, I now recall speaking individually with Mr. Yermak, where I said that resumption of U.S. aid would likely not occur until Ukraine provided the public anti-corruption statement that we had been discussing for many weeks. I also recall some question as to whether the public statement could come from the newly appointed Ukrainian Prosecutor General, rather than from President Zelensky directly.
6. Soon thereafter, I came to understand that, in fact, the public statement would need to come directly from President Zelensky himself. I do not specifically recall how I learned this, but I believe that the information may have come either from Mr. Giuliani or from Ambassador Volker, who may have discussed this with Mr. Giuliani. In a later conversation with Ambassador Taylor, I told him that I had been mistaken about whether a public statement could come from the Prosecutor General; I had come to understand that the public statement would have to come from President Zelensky himself.
Read Gordon Sondland's revised testimony in the impeachment probe about Trump's pressure on Ukraine
His testimony:
5. Also, I now do recall a conversation on September 1, 2019, in Warsaw with Mr. Yermak. This brief pull-aside conversation followed the larger meeting involving Vice President Pence and President Zelensky, in which President Zelensky had raised the issue of the suspension of U.S. aid to Ukraine directly with Vice President Pence. After that large meeting,
I now recall speaking individually with Mr. Yermak, where I said that resumption of U.S. aid
would likely not occur
until Ukraine provided the public anti-corruption statement that we had been discussing for many weeks. I also recall some question as to whether the public statement could come from the newly appointed Ukrainian Prosecutor General, rather than from President Zelensky directly.
So, he all the sudden remembered such pertinent facts. And we have a Treaty with Ukraine regarding public corruption, so how do you think this warrants impeachment? I see no mention of Biden.
Oops!
6. Soon thereafter,
I came to understand that, in fact, the public statement would need to come directly from President Zelensky himself.
I do not specifically recall how I learned this, but I believe that the information
may have come either from Mr. Giuliani or from Ambassador Volker,
who may have discussed this with Mr. Giuliani. In a later conversation with Ambassador Taylor, I told him that I had been mistaken about whether a public statement could come from the Prosecutor General;
I had come to understand that the public statement would have to come from President Zelensky himself.
There are more qualifiers in there then the Summer Olympics. Again, assuming his new recollections are correct, WTF is impeachable in that? Since that post was such a failure I will ask again: Where is the extortion?