Whatever is most convenient/effective; when they come for you, kick 'em good & hard.
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Sondland: I pressured Ukraine to investigate Bidens at Trump’s “express direction”
I like this bus. I really do.
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Wait…what?
EDIT: Ah gotcha now. His pre-testifying statements.
Yeah, they really are all pointing right to POTUS on this one and saying “Yeah, this is on him”
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It’s hard to hit a target that small.
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National Security?
Goldman: “And you called President Trump from your cell phone from the restaurant. Is that right?”
Sondland: “That’s right.”
Goldman: “And this was not a secure line, was it?”
Sondland: “No, it was an open line.”
Goldman: “Did you worry that a foreign government may be listening to your phone call with the President of the United States?”
Sondland: “Well, I have unclassified conversations all the time from land lines that are unsecured and cell phones. If the topic is not classified — and it’s up to the President to decide what’s classified and what’s not classified — and we were having, he was aware that it was an open line as well.”
Goddamn party line to whomever in the world.
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Someone should start a thing on teh intertubes appending "no-nuts’ to these maroons’ names.
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but clinton’s private server was a security concern huh? SMH
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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
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Looking through Nostradumbasses’ twitter feed…they keep saying “it’s over…Sondland said Trump said no QPQ!” but what Sondlond actually said was “I don’t recall”
There’s a difference.
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Quid Pro Quo is really the wrong term. So is bribery. The image of the whole thing that has come out is less a deal, this-for-that, than extortion.
The military aid that was withheld for half a year was an existential need for Ukraine - both for Zelensky himself and for his country.
The White House meeting was a desperate political need for Zelensky. Without it, pro-Russia elements within Ukraine would be emboldened to act against him.
Both of these facts have been well established by the testimony so far.
Trump wasn’t making an exchange with Zelensky. He was withholding life-and-death (both political and actual life) necessities from Zelensky and Ukraine in an effort to force Zelensky to announce an investigation into the Bidens. He might as well have had Guiliani hold a plastic bag over Zelensky’s head.
While Sondland did his best to put it all on Rudy (thump-thump go the bus wheels!), the phone call between Sondland and Trump when Sondland was at lunch in Kiev directly ties Trump to the pressure. And it was working, as evidenced by Zelensky’s arrangement to make an announcement on CNN, cancelled only once the “favor, though” phone call was made public.
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Wall Street should understand that trump is holding all this off until just before the election.
Sept/ Oct 2020: “Hey look everyone! I won the trade war! The best trade war!”
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Looking at trump’s notepad above he clearly is still trying to pressure Zelensky even as hearings on the subject take place.
(He misspelled Zelensky’s name. He has no idea who he’s even trying to extort.)
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Jesus, that’s real?
It’s a fucking miracle we haven’t been blown up yet.
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Notepad was from his presser today.
eta: Interesting that Zelensky’s name is spelled correctly in his Tweet saying the same thing.
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You look uncomfortable- Bone spurs acting up there Donnie?
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This is what I’ve thought. Bribery and extortion are often close analogues. If you offer someone in government $50k to vote a certain way on a certain bill that’s bribery. If you make that same offer knowing they have $50k in gambling debt to organized criminals and are nervous they are going to be killed, that’s extortion.
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Holy fucksocks; that facial expression, though…
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