“She was pretty upset about her role in the administration, about her superiors, about the president,” Sondland recalled in a closed-door deposition he gave to the House Intelligence Committee, which made the testimony public this week. And by Sondland’s account, she wasn’t happy. Hill was leaving her post on July 19 after serving in the White House for just over two years.
Fiona Hill, the White House’s chief Russia adviser, to have some coffee and wish her well in her next endeavor. According to the recollections of Gordon Sondland, a Trump donor who had nabbed a spot in government as the American ambassador to the European Union, he stopped by the office of Dr. One afternoon this past July, a scene that’s become all too familiar during the Trump administration played out: Two high-ranking White House appointees got together to say goodbye.