Well, to be fair, what Trump is actually getting at is that he and Sondland aren’t good friends. They don’t really know each other. Which is true every time Trump says that about someone because Trump has no friends.
“Live with a man 40 years. Share his house, his meals. Speak on every subject. Then tie him up, and hold him over the volcano’s edge. And on that day, you will finally meet the man.”
— Shan Yu.
If someone “gives” you $1M, you better damn well know, at that very instant, that you’re gonna know that person for a long time to come. And intimately, too.
The only way a conspiracy works is if everyone shuts the hell up and doesn’t cooperate. But the bigger a conspiracy gets, the more people know what’s going on, and inevitably people outside the conspiracy find out about it. And it’s a house of cards, because once someone confesses then others will try to save themselves.
And all this is exacerbated by having the conspiracy headed by a dumbass who hires other dumbasses.
"The White House tried to distance the president from his son’s actions, despite Trump’s repeated calls for the whistleblower’s identity to be revealed.
The White House told reporter Yashar Ali that neither “the president nor any senior administration official was aware in advance that the president’s eldest son was going to tweet out the name of the alleged whistleblower.”