Two weeks before President Donald Trump’s infamous phone call in which he pressured the Ukrainian president for political dirt, administration officials applied similar pressure in person to the Ukrainian government — at the White House.
Amazing! The professionals who took contemporaneous notes provide consistent testimony, while the donor, hack dilettantes veer off into the self-serving wilderness.
Noose is tightening.
When this first broke I was amazed that even Trump could be dumb enough to start another collusion conspiracy the day after Mueller’s testimony, when he had got out from under the scandal that should have ended his presidency. But yeah, he was dumber even than that.
Surely the committees will have Sondland back for an official “correct the record” second chance. And THIS time he’ll be sure to flash that winning smile! Either that or just charge him with perjury.
Social media boasts and posts…what a treasure trove of evidence!
How will we unsee this historic photo?
Like those photos unearthed from the Instagram account of the owners of Fraud Guarantee who are Grenade Giuliani’s clients whom Lock-Him-Up-In-Chief said
“I don’t know them. I don’t know about them. I don’t know what they do.”
Wow. The end of this administration is near.
And tomorrow is Tuesday!!!
He may have realized that he needs another 4 years in order to avoid state charges.
Snicker.
The soundtrack of Gordon Sondland’s life.
Nothing damning to see here. Everyone mosey on along now.
Seriously, though, this is the whole game right here. And I thought there was enough evidence already.
And great reporting, TPM!
We are going to get to a stage wheee they are going to be arguing all of this happened yes all of this is horrible but President Trump was actually not aware of any of these meetings. He just had one beautiful conversation and that is it and that everyone else was being rogue.
The Iran- Contra defense.
Sondland was too clever by half to go in front of Congress with his self-serving tales. I hope they nail his hide to the wall.
Sonland can deliver Trump. He’ll get a second chance to make a first impression.
Gee, Sondland really screwed himself with the lies and “I don’t remember!”
When Sondland does his next dance in front of the committees there will be a shitload of “I now recall(s)”. Somehow he will say he checked his notes and his memory is clearer.
It don’t work that way. Charge him with perjury.
It was just thanks for fetching a Big Mac or coffee or something…hardly knew the guy.
It would be more like “I plead the fifth amendment!”.
“After Bolton ended the meeting, Sondland asked the Ukrainians to go to another room in the West Wing basement to continue talking…”
This thing fragments the Extreme Right in a way that I never thought possible. The John Bolton, Liz Cheney National Security nut cases on one side and the Fox News Red Hat Dead Enders on the other. The sanitarium known as the U.S. Senate cowering in terror trying not to have to choose sides.