In a day full of important moments, the Maloney 5 minutes was the one that got me out of my chair hollering, Boooyyaah!
Sondland was trying to obscure the obvious logical conclusion to everything that he had been a part of for the entire day, until Maloney walked him through it simply and clearly. Sondland made one more try to avoid saying what we all know happened, i.e, Trump directed it all, extorted Ukraine to do it, every member of the senior administration was in on it, and the desired result was to smear Trump’s political rival by forcing Ukraine to give him cover.
“So with all do respect sir, we appreciate your candor, but let’s be really clear about what it took to get it out of you,” Maloney concluded, holding Sondland’s gaze in the now dead-quiet hearing room.
Spot on comment. It is so easy to forget to bring a discussion home during prolonged dialogue.
This comment brought the discussion home and put it to bed.
It amazes me, again and again, how the arrogant person believes they can withstand interrogation and cross-examination from even a competent attorney or police detective. You can binge-watch every episode and every flavor of Law & Order and remain unprepared for the damage you’ll do to yourself.
Sondland knows a lot more than he is telling, but he knows if he tells it he is going to jail. He tried to throw us off his trail by giving us just enough to hang Trump, Giuliani, Pence, Pompeo and Mulvaney.
Interesting that El Gordo seems to have donated not to the campaign (restrictions and all that) but to the inauguration scam, straight into Porky’s piggy bank.
