Washington: A cyclist who was fired after flipping the bird making a rude single-fingered gesture to US President Donald Trump's motorcade has been elected to local office in Virginia.
Juli Briskman, whose one-handed salute was captured in an AFP photograph that went viral, beat the Republican incumbent to a seat on the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors in state elections that saw Trump's Republican party suffer a series of stinging defeats.
Meanwhile, With that stunning reversal, US diplomat Gordon Sondland handed House impeachment investigators another key piece of corroborating testimony on Tuesday.
He acknowledged what Democrats contend was a clear quid pro quo, pushed by US President Donald Trump and his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, with Ukraine.
