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I’m embarrassed to admit but this guy went to my high school. I personally don’t remember him but my sister said he was ALWAYS a wannabe popular guy even back then. You would ‘think’ that success in life would be good enough but …

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Sigh, it’s that darn inflation rearing it’s ugly head under the Trump Administration.

A million dollars only gets you a subpoena with possible jail time attached, and $10 billion gets you a wall that’s as porous as that spongy mush known as Trump’s brain.

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As damning as all of this should be, the fact remains: he’s still playing coy. Neither he nor anyone else wants to be the one who pins it on Trump and they are working to set up a situation in which Trump is insulated from it by somehow nobody knowing or hearing or witnessing, as if by magic, anything that might directly link Trump to demands for a QPQ. Granted, we have the “transcript” of the phone call that does that, but that technically doesn’t link Trump directly to everyone else running around (on what they will claim is “frolic and detour”) making QPQ demands of Ukrainian officials all on their own, in what they will say was some sort of misguided effort to please the boss but without the boss having directly ordered it.

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Sondland confirmed that he came to believe Trump was pursuing something “improper” with his pressure campaign against Ukraine.

Saying the President fucked up and did something at least wrong, maybe criminal, and he is still the US Ambassador to the EU to this day! Totally normal and very cool. The best people.

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Of course it is. These are patriots defending Murikkka from the socialists/communists and the browns. Precisely nothing ISN’T justified.

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the demands that Giuliani was seeking of Ukraine grew more “insidious” over time

I like “insidious”. It’s a good word, especially when applied to this coven of frauds and charlatans.

insidious

adjective

  1. intended to entrap or beguile: an insidious plan.
  2. stealthily treacherous or deceitful: an insidious enemy.
  3. operating or proceeding in an inconspicuous or seemingly harmless way but actually with grave effect: an insidious disease.

Sort of captures the essence of the Trump administration of miscreants and malcontents.

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This is the first day I really looked closer at him and was floored to find that his hotels are my very favorite hotels. They are so cool.

And he had to go and blow all of that by being an asshat for Spanky.

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He pulled a Sessions.

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Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs have had little trouble rewarding the greedy opportunists around Donald Trump. Giuliani has bragged about the mega-dollars he gets from foreigners for dubious consulting work. Who else has been monetizing their access to the President?

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Or Trump never met the guy, doesn’t know him, he is human scum take your pick.

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Unless Sondland is granted some form of immunity to testify against Trump . . .

Here’s his future for lying to Congress:

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Sondland should be fired, stripped of his pension and imprisoned for betraying the Trump Organization’s extortion and racketeering activities overseas.

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I am sure Ambassador Sondland will appreciate any support he can get for his legal expenses.

Hotel Max and Hotel Theodore in Seattle
Hotel Murano in Tacoma
Hotel deLuxe, Lucia, Sentinel, Dossier, and Heathman in Portland
Hotel Preston in Nashville
Old No. 77 and the Chandlery in New Orleans

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Nothing will happen to Sondland. Not with this DoJ, this FBI and this Supreme Court. When white conservatives commit crimes for money and power it is not illegal.

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This one’s more appropriate:

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Sondland is saving his own neck, and finally telling the truth. He’s figured out Trump won’t help him.

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I guess we know who will get the ax (and a knife in his back) in short order.

I’m not so sure. Sondland’s the guy who gave Trump $1 million for the privilege of serving. Seems to me Trump’s in his pocket, not visa versa, and he wants payback.

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The only takeaway that matters is that Republicans are officially not bothering to address the issue anymore. The only thing they will focus on is the ‘process’ and how ‘unfair’ it is. They’ve gotten to the point where it’s ‘process’ or ‘nothing matters if the president does it’. But 0% chance this does anything at all towards getting him removed from office.

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And it looks like this was sparked by a water rights dispute between the Mormons and locals, “protected” by the cartel.

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