Sondland testified that he was directed to work thru Giuliani to get what he wanted for Ukraine (the release of the military aid on hold since May) and said that āEVERYBODY was in the loop.
He had the balls to defy State and the WH and show up to testify. Giuliani, Pompeo, Mulvaney, Perry and several others are too scared to do so.
Giuliani, Pompeo, Mulvaney, Perry and several others donāt want to be part of Schiffās Five Ring Circus.
If Sheriff Schiff and all his deputies had to take the same oath as the witnesses, it might be a different story. Those worthless fuckers can lie with immunity.
Theyāre just grandstanding to get their lies into the Congressional Record.
Remember the stink these guys made when a certain Obama administration official refused to testify during the eight incarnations of the Benghazi hoax investigation. Yet look at the number of Trump officials refusing to testify here, with their blessingā¦
Yeah, letās read the transcript where trump specifically asks Zelensky to investigate the Bidenās while trashing the USās own ambassador to Ukraineā¦
I will ask him (Giuliani) to call yoti along with the AttorneyĀ·_
Ā· General.Ā·:Rudy very much knows whatās happening and he is a very capable guy. If you could _speak to him that would be great. The
former ambassador from the United $tates,Ā· the woman., was bad
news ļæ½nd thļæ½ people she was dealing with in .the Ukraine .were bad news so I jtist wanļæ½ to_let you know thatļæ½ The otļæ½er thing, Thereās a lot 6f. talk about Bidenās son,. that Eiden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great. Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if
you Ā·can look into itā¦ It sounds horrible to me.
VP is calling Sonderland a liar and calling him out! This is going to get juicy!
āThe vice president never had a conversation with Gordon Sondland about investigating the Bidens, Burisma, or the conditional release of financial aid to Ukraine based upon potential investigations,ā Pence said in his statement. āAmbassador Gordon Sondland was never alone with Vice President Pence on the September 1 trip to Poland. This alleged discussion recalled by Ambassador Sondland never happened.ā
Normally, Iād be happy that Dems are setting a precedent for endlessly harassing future Dem presidents and tying them up in Congressional inquiries and special counsel investigations so they get nothing accomplished.
But then I remember the Recucklicans will never stop grabbing their ankles, and realize precedent is only as strong as the balls of those willing to cite it.
I was thinking about this earlier today. What the Dems are doing directly correlates to the fact that their ādiverseā base will never ever make them pay a price for this. Iād be surprised if this fiasco led to even 500,000 vote loss for them in the next election, nationwide.
This would not be true in the converse.
The bare facts of this asymmetry will only get worse.