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The Kardashians got an unlikely mention during the impeachment hearings on Thursday — as a top US diplomat detailed a conversation he overheard between a colleague and President Trump about A$AP Rocky.

David Holmes, a political counselor to the US ambassadors in Ukraine, said Gordon Sondland, the US ambassador to the European Union, and the president discussed the rapper, who’d been locked up in Sweden on assault charges, in the July 26 call.

Holmes said Sondland told the president “that Sweden ‘should have released him on your word but you can tell the Kardashians you tried.'”

The Kardashians were among the many celebrities to lobby Trump to take action on the rapper’s case.

The day before the Sondland-Trump phone call, the president had demanded, to no avail, that Sweden release A$AP Rocky from a Stockholm jail.

Donald Trump (left) and A$AP RockyGetty ImagesDonald Trump (left) and A$AP RockyGetty Images

Holmes detailed other parts of the July 26 call — which he overheard while with Sondland in Kiev — in testimony before the House Intelligence Committee.

“Ambassador Sondland told the president that the rapper was ‘kind of f—ed there’ and ‘should have pled guilty,'” Holmes said. “He recommended that the president ‘wait until after the sentencing, or it will only make it worse,’ and he added that the president should let him get sentenced, play the racism card, give him a tickertape when he comes home.”

Sondland testified Wednesday about his conversation with Trump about A$AP Rocky.

The Grammy-nominated rapper, whose real name is Rakim Mayers, was found guilty of assault in August.

Kim Kardashian (left) and Kris KardashianPA Images via Getty ImagesKim Kardashian (left) and Kris KardashianPA Images via Getty Images
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