Ahead of his testimony before Congress on Tuesday, a dozen House Democrats called for the U.S. ambassador to the European Union to resign over his role in the ever-evolving Ukraine scandal.
Why doesn’t this kind of evidence of insider mischief protecting a rogue president somehow translate into Republicans joining the impeachment process?
And why are so many people still so afraid of that process, when every day, another outrageous event tears at the underpinnings of our freedom. It is the mechanism we were granted by the founders to address this mess, they anticipated we would have the courage to use it.
Anyone who thinks the Trump impeachment will unfold the same way Clinton’s did is a dupe.
All those people who fear that, because Clinton gained popularity as he was being shamefully pummeled in a truly partisan impeachment, Trump will somehow do the same, are ignoring the reality that refuses to hide beneath the lies in this one.
Trump’s popularity drops whenever the truth is exposed about his deep dirt, Clinton’s rose because he was being unfairly treated.
The only real equivalency is the word “impeachment”, any further comparison is stretching credulity to a breaking point.
There are no other similarities between these two impeachment proceedings, the label alone is all that links them.
Assuming some standard was established with Clinton that somehow relates to Trump ignores the very truth itself.
THE PEOPLE want to know the truth, when they learned it about Clinton they wondered why it ever got so crazy it led to impeachment in the first place.
But when they learn the truth about Trump, they all want to hang him, not exonerate him, because his influence is really evil, not just careless and cavalier.
Clinton may have been profane, but he wasn’t malicious.
Trump is just plain evil, so THE PEOPLE want him gone, deep down in their democratic psyche.
Those who don’t are just confessing openly that their patriotism is just an excuse for their brainwashed hate for the mystical “left” FOX taught them to own.
Apparently forever.
Someday I am going to hear Sondland’s voice and I am going to be disappointed when he doesn’t sound like Wallace Shawn…
Democrats are so dumb. Why are they calling for him to resign? That lets Trump off the hook. At the very least they should call for Trump or Pompeo to fire him and put the focus where it belongs. Those two are the ones who put him in the position (along with Republican Senators who confirmed). Let them take the heat.
My guess is that they think he will be more willing to tesitfy truthfully if he is no longer under Trump’s and Pompeo’s control.
What testimony?
Agreed… the reason it got so crazy was Newt’s declaration that party trumped country, today it has gotten to the point where tRump has trumped the Republican party
Well, one reason they might want him to resign is that he was involved in a cover up and was using US government resources to aid a reelection campaign (i.e., he was stealing from you and me).
Lock 'em up. All of them.
Nixon really fucked up, he should have just done this. Clinton, too.
A POS like Sondland sounding like the great Wallace Shawn?
INCONCEIVABLE!!!
Yup. And millions of Americans have lied about sex, and more can imagine doing so. They empathized with Clinton. Committing treason and obstructing justice? Not so common.
Sondland will only testify if brought in wearing handcuffs, or if he cuts an immunity deal. He’s in with Trump’s treason up to his eyeballs.
Unsurprising.
But hasn’t it occurred to them that also this can get old – and start people asking, so, what are they hiding??? If this were all so above-board, there should be no problem with someone answering questions.
Enter WB #2…?
That … and that the whole contrived charade to “get” Clinton was assembled by a bunch of Republicans who were revealed to be rampant serial adulterers with mistresses.
Because republicans are lockstep partisans.
When they receive orders to abandon trump they will abandon him.
But that won’t happen until primary filing deadlines pass. Because they fear getting primaried more than they fear trump.
Traitorous…not treasonous.
Might as well be accurate.
Because they are either a Co-conspirator or a Collaborator aiding and abetting a corrupt and lawless criminal President.
I just thought this might be interesting. This compares the US Ambassador to the EU under Obama and Trump.
His role now is as the ambassador to the European Union, based in Brussels and tasked with representing America when it comes to Europe’s broader issues. His predecessor, Obama-appointee Anthony Gardner, came to the job from the world of private equity, but he had a degree in international relations from Harvard, speaks French, Spanish and Italian and had previously served in diplomatic roles. Sondland, however, got his diplomatic job the old fashioned way—by making large political donations. According to OpenSecrets.org, Sondland has given at least $446,000 to federal candidates in the last few decades. Almost all the recipients were Republicans, but of the more moderate type—Jeb Bush’s Right to Rise PAC, for instance.