Gordon Sondland, the former U.S. ambassador to the EU, is suing former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the government in a bid to have one of the two pay for $1.8 million in legal fees incurred during the 2019 Ukraine impeachment inquiry.
Splendid. Gotta love it when the vultures start picking at each other.
Comfused here…
Does this call for the worlds smallest violin or thoughts and prayers???
Perhaps a drizzle of schadenfreude? Pompeo getting busted is a lovely way of starting the week. And it’s barely the beginning of what he’s got coming to him.
Sondland is just another rich guy who wants other people to pay his bills. If you don’t want to eat your own cooking, don’t be a stupid patsy for a corrupt regime from whom you bought your “job.”
Who woulda thought Trump would NOT pay someone’s legal fees??
But when it came time to pay up in February 2020, Sondland said, State Department officials told Sondland that “the Administration wanted to purge everyone remotely connected to the Impeachment trial.”
OT, but incoming pivot attempt…
Sorry, Gordon, but $1.8 million in fees for a few days of testimony? Obviously, I’d love to see a judgement against Pompeo, who had zero authority to promise reimbursement by the State Dept. On the other hand, I bet Vindman, Yovanovitch, etc didn’t have almost $2 million in legal fees.
Gordon Sondland is the dumbest knucklehead ever. He was lucky to come out from his adventure as Ambassador and Trump’s James Bond without a prison term or a murder attempt. And what the idiot does? Starts making noises surely to bring undesired attention from the DOJ. Next he knows he will be 2 or more million dollars in the hole fighting conspiracy and corruption charges.
I wonder if any of them have the guts to sue Trump, that would be even better. In the meantime, let’s hope Pompeo is so busy defending himself in court he doesn’t have the time to make a run at POTUS, which is clearly his supreme goal.
I trust that Psaki will point out that investment is a fiscally responsible strategy while neglecting and/or actively destroying things is not.
The others also didn’t have potential legal exposure for crimes in their testimony. Tends to up the bill and the defense work needed.
Grifters.
Yes, my point exactly.
There’s no honor amongst thieves and grifters.
Ya know, Sondland, we had kind of forgotten about you and your odd interest in Ukraine while nominally ambassador to the EU. But if you want to drag your ass back into the spotlight while making Pompeo’s life miserable for the next two years, you be you. I’ll be over here with the popcorn and beer.
How exactly could Pompeo claim the State Department would pay for this? I certainly hope he personally gets in trouble for this, but I won’t hold my breath. I can’t see how the taxpayers should be held responsible for Pompeo making a bribe.
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Sondland goes on to describe Pompeo’s commitment to have the government reimburse his testimony as an example of “rogue actions” by the secretary of state.
So Sondland, um, did you get that commitment in writing? And precisely when did you come to think of that commitment as a “rogue action”?
