• It's Over

    From Gregory Deyss@1:267/150 to All on Wed Nov 20 19:10:26 2019

    Rep. Michael Turner, R-Ohio, questioned Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador
    to the European Union, on Nov. 20, in a public hearing as part of the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. Turner, who called
    Sondland's testimony "somewhat circular," questioned the ambassador's
    assertion that "everyone was in the loop." "If Giuliani didn't give you any expressed statement, then it can't be that you believed this [about the connection between investigations and aid] from Giuliani," Turner said. "Is that your testimony today, Amb. Sondland? That you have evidence that Donald Trump tied the investigations to aid because I don't think you're saying
    that." Sondland said he was "PRESUMING" that is what Trump meant. Sondland testified that there was a "quid pro quo" in which U.S. aid and a White House meeting were contingent on Ukraine agreeing to investigate the
    2016 elections and the Ukrainian energy company Burisma, where the son of
    2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden, Hunter, sat on the board. Sondland
    also said he understood the prerequisites to be a reflection of Trumps
    desires and requirements.

    Bottom Line that he (Amb. Sondland) assumed this to be true, but that stands apart from the truth with what actually was said or has occurred it exists
    only in his (Amb. Sondland's own mind.)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnEWYilDgcg

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  • From Lee Lofaso@2:221/360 to Gregory Deyss on Fri Nov 22 02:18:58 2019
    Hello Greg,

    Thanks for posting this. Rebuttal follows.

    Rep. Michael Turner, R-Ohio, questioned Gordon Sondland, the U.S.
    ambassador
    to the European Union, on Nov. 20, in a public hearing as part of the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. Turner, who called Sondland's testimony "somewhat circular," questioned the ambassador's assertion that "everyone was in the loop." "If Giuliani didn't give you any expressed statement, then it can't be that you believed this [about the connection between investigations and aid] from Giuliani," Turner said. "Is that your testimony today, Amb. Sondland? That you have evidence that
    Donald
    Trump tied the investigations to aid because I don't think you're saying that." Sondland said he was "PRESUMING" that is what Trump meant. Sondland testified that there was a "quid pro quo" in which U.S. aid and a White
    House
    meeting were contingent on Ukraine agreeing to investigate the
    2016 elections and the Ukrainian energy company Burisma, where the son of 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden, Hunter, sat on the board. Sondland also said he understood the prerequisites to be a reflection of Trumps desires and requirements.

    (CNN)Gordon Sondland made a LOT of news in his opening statement to the
    House Intelligence Committee on Wednesday. There was a quid pro quo
    between the Americans and the Ukrainains. Everybody in the White House
    knew about it. And the Ukrainians knew too.

    But there was one piece of Sondland's testimony that didn't get as much attention as it should have. Under questioning from Intelligence
    Committee chair Adam Schiff (D-California) about the specific nature of
    the quid pro quo between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Sondland said this:

    "He had to announce the investigations. He didn't actually have to do
    them, as I understood it."

    Which, to be clear, means that in order for Zelensky to get the White
    House meeting he so coveted, he needed to simply announce that Ukraine
    was looking into Joe and Hunter Biden -- despite there being no evidence
    of wrongdoing by either of them -- as well as the whereabouts of the
    hacked Democratic National Committee server.


    https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/21/politics/gordon-sondland-testimony/index
    ..html

    Ambassador Sondland's statement totally destroys Donald Trump's
    anti-corruption argument. And I mean totally.

    "He had to announce the investigations. He didn't actually have to do
    them, as I understood it." ~Ambassador Gordon Sondland, 11/20/2019

    The bottom line is Trump's boat is sunk.

    "I want nothing." ~Donald J. Trump, 11/20/2019

    --Lee

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