Posted on 11/20/2019 2:26:42 PM PST by EyesOfTX
Ok, so now we’re supposed to impeach a sitting President of the United States based not just on hearsay and rank gossip, but on what Gordon Sondland assumed. And thus, the dumbest impeachment effort in the history of the known universe continues apace.
Ambassador Sondland gave us a 45 minute opening statement this morning, longer even than the mind-numbing long and winding road of hearsay and gossip delivered by Bill Taylor a week ago. During that opening statement, the self-serving Sondland threw literally everyone involved in this entire Ukrainian fake controversy under the bus. He did his best to leave behind a trail of dead bodies including Rudy Giuliani, Kurt Volker, Taylor, the dapper dandy George Kent, Alexander Vindman, Marie Yovanovitch, Jennifer Williams, Tim Morrison, the garbage man, the mail carrier, the pest control guy, the plumber, the White House chef, Ivanka Trump’s seamstress and, of course, his main target, the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.
Sondland wove a tail in which he assumed that, whenever anyone mentioned the word “Burisma” – the corrupt Ukrainian gas company that has been the central player in so much graft, bribery and influence peddling with various U.S. players – they actually were saying “Joe and Hunter Biden.” This latest Deep State fantasy play included the theme that everyone involved “knew” there was a “quid pro quo” in which the Ukrainian government either had to open investigations into the rank influence peddling engaged in by Joe and Hunter Biden during the Obama years or they would never get congressionally-authorized U.S. economic and military aid.
It was a wonderful tale, a tale whose plot almost made Adam Schiff’s bug-eyes plop right out onto the hearing room carpet at various points, a plot so stupendous and seemingly evil that, after his 45-minute questioning of Sondland, Schiff could no longer contain himself and called a “bathroom break” so he could rush out into the hall and hold a press conference. Alas, it was all for naught at the end of the day.
See, Sondland’s tall, self-serving tale had one inconvenient plot twist, and it turned out to be the part that he left out of it. That plot twist, as coaxed out of the dissembling Ambassador to the EU (what a perfect job for this quisling fool to be in, hobnobbing and partying with the quisling fools of Europe) by Ohio congressman Michael Turner, is that, in the only conversation Sondland actually had with President Trump on this whole “quid pro quo” nonsense, the President told Sondland not once, but twice, “I want nothing! I want no Quid Pro Quo!”
Oh. Schiff’s bugeyes sank deeply into his tiny cerebral cortex when Sondland had to admit to that. Here’s the clip:
Dr.Estella Sneider @DrEstella .@AdamSchiff @CNN and their #FakeNews ! Now they are turning presumptions into facts! Bravo 👏🏻 #MichaelTurner @RepMikeTurner
Embedded video 46 1:31 PM - Nov 20, 2019 Twitter Ads info and privacy 41 people are talking about this Turner: Answer the question – no one on this planet told you that Trump was tying this aid to the investigations. Because if your answer is yes, then the chairman is wrong and the headline on CNN is wrong. No one on this planet told you that President Trump was tying aid to investigations, yes or no.
Sondland: Yes.
Oh.
Early in my professional career I had a very smart boss who taught me a very important lesson. When I had failed to carry out a task and he asked me why that had happened, I told him that I had assumed another person on our team was going to do it.
He smiled and asked, you know what “assume” does, don’t you? When I said no, he said, “assume” makes an “ass” out of “u” and “me.” Don’t assume anything – if you aren’t sure, ask.
Obviously, Gordon Sondland never had a smart and kind boss who was willing to teach him that very important life lesson. Even more disturbing, Sondland decided to cling to his assumption even after his current boss, the President of the United States of America, personally informed him that his assumption was wrong.
This is kind of self-serving fool who permeates our diplomatic corps and the rest of our federal bureaucracy, the sort of jackass President Trump was elected to get rid off. Sadly, Mr. Trump has no one to blame for Sondland but himself, since he appointed the slug to his ambassadorship.
No time like the present to correct that enormous judgment error.
Some clips from the hearing for those who missed it.
Jim Jordan’s latest tour de force:
Rep. Jim Jordan ✔ @Jim_Jordan On Sept. 5th, bipartisan Sens. Johnson and Murphy met with President Zelensky and discussed the delay in aid.
If ever there was a time for Zelensky to mention any supposed pressure or pushing, that was the time.
But it didn’t happen. Because there was no pressure.
Embedded video 9,218 2:29 PM - Nov 20, 2019 Twitter Ads info and privacy 5,658 people are talking about this John Ratcliffe:
Rising star Elise Stefanik:
ABC News Politics ✔ @ABCPolitics "Clearly it's an appearance of a conflict [of interest]," Amb. Gordon Sondland tells Rep. Elise Stefanik about Hunter Biden's position on the board of Barisma.
"And yet we are not allowed to call Hunter Biden to answer questions," Stefanik adds. https://abcn.ws/2KBuiXR
Embedded video 2,463 1:44 PM - Nov 20, 2019 Twitter Ads info and privacy 1,569 people are talking about this Devin Nunes:
That is all.
The 4 fatal words that shot the Democrat Fascist party lie in the head right at the start.
“In my personal view”
He also said THIS which proves this spin a shameless lie
Sondland: “I’ve never heard from President Trump that the aid was conditioned on the investigations.”
Game over. That he assumed something is utterly irrelevant
This A$$hole admitted Trump did not commit bribery or a quid pro quo! We won’t let you forget your words Ambassador Sondland!
Interestingly, PBS has turned off comments for this video!
I fu*king hate the Fake US News Media!
Then Sondland tells another half truth...says he ran on transparency....when in fact his campaign was all about getting rid of corruption.
Assume, Presume.
Pulled it right out of his fanny.
Sondland seems weaselly and evasive. Why does he has to be pressed for Yes or No answers?
Trump needs to invoke his “Apprentice” line here
NBC News is not honestly covering the Sonland testimony. No mention at all his wife’s business was being boycotted and protested, and that a congressman declared him a member of the resitance.
Lying bastards, I despise them!
I found Sondland’s answer to the question about whether he was a Trump supporter given that he had made a “donation” of over a million dollars to the Trump Inauguration Committee very interesting. When pressed on being a Trump supporter, he hedged and awkwardly said he had made a “very large donation to the inauguration, purchasing access . . . “ at which point the Democrat Congressman pressing him cut him off in mid-sentence so he would not have to say that was his only contribution to Trump. He’s NOT really and truly a Trump supporter. I think he bought himself an Ambassadorship. . . or access to Trump for business purposes.
ASSUME you make an ASS out of U and ME!
Who here remembers this was a line from the “Odd Couple”?
I’m just fed up with the Ruling Elites “Bread and Circuses”.
This is the best reporting I’ve seen yet from you or anyone else. So concise, and the perfect video clips to show the media’s distortion of the hearings.
Thanks
Today, with DJT, it's an assurance that corruptocrats aren't pilfering and kicking back money as before.
DJT has every damn right to get that assurance that we're not throwing away our money. He's got a budget to fix. It's written into the agreements.
Sondland seems weaselly and evasive. Why does he has to be pressed for Yes or No answers?
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Agreed! And how did this weasel end up with four leftist lawyers representing him for these “hearings”?
One fact which all of us can take away from these testimonies from government bureaucrats or hangers-on is that they appear to be self-serving, rather than "others-serving."
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