U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Gordon Sondland reportedly plans to testify that President Donald Trump ordered him to send the infamous text denying that there was any quid pro quo between Trump and the Ukrainian government over military aid.
This one is going to sting.
I love the smell of impeachment in the morning.
He paid a million to come to his senses. Expensive lesson.
āYes, the President is a liar, but maybe he wasnāt lying this time.ā
Come on Pelosi. Do no let this be a repeat of the throwing away of the other smoking gun about the explanation of the conspiratorial meeting between the Jr. and the Russians as something about adoption.
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Gordon Sondland reportedly plans to testify that President Donald Trump ordered him to send the infamous text denying that there was any quid pro quo between Trump and the Ukrainian government over military aid.
As you read this, Chiselinā Trump is ordering Sondland to send another text denying that he plans to testify that Chiselinā Trump ordered him to send the infamous text denying that there was any quid pro quo between Trump and the Ukrainian government over military aid.
Yeah, I donāt know you guys, a close reading of the article doesnāt really mean his testimony will expose Trump as a prevaricator only that he (Trump) wanted his ambassador to be clear about the lack of quid pro quo. The headline seems a bit optimistic to me.
āItās only true that the President said it, not that it was the truth,ā the source said.
No shit Sherlock! Thatās pretty much the case with most of what Trump says.
Sondland will reportedly testify that he ābelieved Trump at the time and on that basis passed along assurances.ā
This is exactly like when a group of rich punks get caught breaking into the school with cans of spray paint, and Sondland is the one who went along with it nervously and is sick with regret now because heās the one who best understands how much trouble theyāre really in. āI believed him at the timeā is the middle-aged geopolitical version of āI used bad judgment.ā
An unnamed source told the Post that the ambassador will tell the House Intelligence Committee and the other committees involved in the impeachment inquiry on Thursday that he isnāt sure if his text telling U.S. Charges Dāaffaires for Ukraine Bill Taylor that there was no quid pro quo was truthful.
Thatās the smart move from Sondland, he does not want to engage in the cover up, tell it how it was and let Trump do the spinning.
Mueller threw that smocking gun away
He should call Maria for lessons about how to walk through the Capitolās front doors with pride and an air of authority, confidence and invincibility:
With the might of right.
IF Sondland expects to stay in business in Portland & Seattle he needs to extract himself from this extortion scheme
PNW Sondland Hotels to boycott:
Hotel Theodore, Seattle
Hotel Max, Seattle
Hotel Murano, Tacoma
Woodlark, Portland
Dossier, Portland
Hotel Lucia, Portland
The Heathman Hotel, Portland
Hotel deLuxe, Portland
Sentinel, Portland
Well, as long as Trump was crystal clear about it, I donāt see anything to complain about.
Sondland is a rich guy in the hotel business. He will be a rich guy in the hotel business after he leaves the Trump administration. The only way he can not be is if he goes from the Trump administration to prison. He has every incentive to rat Trump out. I suspect his testimony will be explosive. This is just the tip of the iceberg. A lot of Republicans are going to have to really swallow hard to stick with Trump after this story comes out.
The wapo article had a quote that it beggars belief that Sondland didnāt know it was a quid pro quo.
Heās either an idiot or a liar or both. Under the advice of his lawyer he is sticking to a knowable truth and spinning the rest
Yep, Sondland is just taking himself out of the equation, āI repeated what I was told, even now, I have no way to tell if it was true or false. Ask Trumpā.
In his position, how would he be able to speak to the truthfulness of the statement. Unless heās prepared to say the president told him, āWeāre gonna squeeze this guyās balls with that military aid until he caves on giving us the Biden investigationā, then Trump comes out of this expected testimony with, āOf course I told him to say thereās no quid pro quo because thereās no quid pro quo.ā
Well thatās that. No QpQ! Oh, but it doesnāt matter if it was QpQ. Why was Trump holding up the support to Ukraine?