Laurence Tribe 
@tribelaw
(https://twitter.com/tribelaw)
“This is no small edit! Sondland has just blown Trump’s story apart, leaving mere shreds of orange skin and slimy fat”
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Warning:: This is not a verbatim transcript. This summary is based on notes and recollections of the testimony, and may be influenced by covering one’s ass and several strong pharmaceutical substances.
My name is Gordon Sondland. Sorry about the whole perjuring myself thing before, okay? When I said I didn’t know anything, I meant I know everything, and was very, very concerned, okay? And Giuliani is, like, a total dick, okay? Are we all good now? Hugs?
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There are so many buses on the road right now…
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I am very interested to hear what else Dems have in their impeachment bag. I am afraid this Ukraine story is being successfully watered down for the public…as each new smoking outrage lands in the damp swamplands of mainstream media and gets urinated on by every R who can run to a mic. Most Rs of course are humiliated by having to cover for Chump, but as weeks and months drag out and they keep chiseling the High Crime down and down…they are having some success. All you have to do is make the American public tired and confused and it defuses Chump’s crimes nicely. “He didn’t know it was wrong, it was just Chump being Chump, it was wrong but not impeachable”…I just feel this won’t be enough a year from now.
Of course, the Dems have more in their bag than Ukraine, and plenty more explosive stuff about Ukraine to unveil. I am just venting here a little…we need to be able to move on to the entire R party and R electorate…and begin hoisting them MFers for covering, excusing, and compounding/participating in his High Crimes. The real outrage, America, isn’t that Chump is such a flaming criminal sack of shit; it is that every single elected R is proving no better. I want to see Russian charges, Saudi charges, Jared/Ivanka security clearance charges, and emoluments/flagrant profiting charges, and Chump/Barr obstruction charges.
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This is you, @dicktater (and to Laurence Tribe if I were in a position to speak to him personally).
Does the term “Felony Rap” register to Sondland (like it would to me if I were in his position)?
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Jackie Speier @RepSpeier
(https://twitter.com/RepSpeier)
“Hard to believe that you had a lapse of memory of something so specific as a quid pro quo, particularly when you communicated NO quid pro quo in your text messages to other Trump Admin personnel. Perjury is a crime, so Amb Sondland appears to not want to go to jail after all.”
I say, why aren’t we recommending felony perjury charges? @emiliano4
Why do we allow this game-playing and shilly-shallying with an F’ing Impeachment Inquiry? Wouldn’t that send a better message to the rest of the criminals, and the American public? Can’t Dems recommend charges and make Bill Barr have to publicly defraud the citizens at least, yet again?
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So true.
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There’s another take away. This is the man that represents America in the EU. He’s our spokesman at the table with our dearest allies. And they’ll know he’s a damn liar.
Another take away. There was a quid pro quo and Zelensky knows it. He probably has it taped. Just because we did not tape our end ( although I’m sure we did ) there’s no reason to believe he did not do so on his. And that puts Trump in a compromised and beholden position.
As a former European let me tell you America…you are walking on thin ice. There’s only so much Trump shit that Union will take. They don’t have to take any of it. You keep sending liars like Trump, Sondland and Rudy over there to jack with folks and you’re going to find yourself lonely.
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sondland: geez, my recollections seem to be clarifying. instead of “i forget”, i’m going to redo it with, “yeah, it’s all fucking true. my bad.”
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At this point that’s the only way he survives. “That was no small edit” said Tribe. He’s right. It was a material 180 of such magnitude you cannot wash perjury out of it. Sondland lied under oath. If he wishes to walk out of that mess clean he’ll have to cough up some goody.
“it’s not about the sex it’s about the lying”…remember that?
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The key takeaway? Ukraine is the gift that keep on giving.
Attention Congressman Schiff and Speaker Pelosi: Please take your time. Try to stretch your investigations to next October or so, before you give the case to the Senate. It looks like you will keep getting material.
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Sondland, “I like Donald, but I’m not doing time for him.”
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Sondland claimed that after the meeting, he didn’t take it upon himself to figure out what Giualini’s concerns were. Rather, he learned from Kurt Volker, the U.S. special envoy to Ukraine, that Giuliani was concerned about “corruption,” which didn’t raise any “interesting flags” for Sondland.
There’s a meetin’ here tonight
There’s a meetin’ here tonight
I can tell by your friendly face in this Ukraine Place,
There’s a meetin’ here tonight
Well Satan Trump is mad and I am glad
(Satan Trump is mad and I am glad)
Lost a soul bribe he thought he had
(Lost a soul bribe he thought he had)
Satan Trump is a liar and a conjure con man too
(Satan Trump is a liar and a conjure con man too)
You better watch out brother he’ll conjure con you, he’ll conjure con you, he’ll conjure con you.
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Excellent assessment
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Reversed photos drive me nuts.
Sorry.
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Noted. Thank you.
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The key takeaway is that he had to “update” his testimony to reflect the truth.
Worth repeating
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It doesn’t have to be Zelensky. I’m sure plenty of other intel agencies have a recording also. The Russians, the Israelis…
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Democrats should be complaining that this is going to take a really long time with all the WH obstruction and lying. At least set the stage for once.
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