Impeachment Inquiry Hearing with E.U. Ambassador Gordon Sondland – LIVE at 9am ET on C-SPAN3, C-SPAN Radio & online here: https://cs.pn/2Odalb0
“Thump, thump” goes the wheels on the bus…
This is just straight up bullshit from Fox’s so-called ‘news division’
Fox News correspondent John Roberts: “President Trump says he doesn’t really know Sondland, and in a way that’s true.” pic.twitter.com/nZitfiBiGh— Lis Power (@LisPower1) November 20, 2019
re: #1 Targetpractice
— Wallace Ritchie (@WallaceRitchie) November 20, 2019
Jeebus, these dilettantes.
Inside the National Security Council, officials expressed wonderment that Rudy Giuliani was running his “irregular channel” of Ukraine diplomacy over open cell lines and communications apps in Ukraine that the Russians have deeply penetrated. https://t.co/ULd6xjyZRG
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 20, 2019
when you’re about to leeroy jenkins the republican party pic.twitter.com/DU0e5Z1lPK
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) November 20, 2019
Seems to me that Rudy, Lev, Igor, and their cronies were the actual deep state. The actual shadow government. They’re not elected, appointed, nor can they pass a security clearance making our foreign policy.
So what is the chance that Sondland suprises the Democrats and turns out to be a Trump stooge?
fox news dot com: all of this sondland news is bad for rudy giuliani only pic.twitter.com/8vZjMFhuXg
— John Whitehouse (@existentialfish) November 20, 2019
And let’s check in with the Pulpit Pimps!
Longtime Christian evangelist Jim Bakker claimed Democrats will “kill” President Donald Trump if impeachment can’t remove him from office.
The far right-wing pastor, 79, who gained notoriety for hosting The PTL Club alongside his first wife in the 1970s-80s, predicted Monday that Trump’s Democratic Party critics will attempt to assassinate him if they can’t oust him politically. Speaking on his Branson, Missouri-based The Jim Bakker Show, the pro-Trump preacher said America is being “ripped apart” by people who hate the president.
Oh Jimbo going just a tad over the top, isn’t he?????
re: #9 Joe Bacon 🌹
And let’s check in with the Pulpit Pimps!
Longtime Christian evangelist Jim Bakker claimed Democrats will “kill” President Donald Trump if impeachment can’t remove him from office.
The far right-wing pastor, 79, who gained notoriety for hosting The PTL Club alongside his first wife in the 1970s-80s, predicted Monday that Trump’s Democratic Party critics will attempt to assassinate him if they can’t oust him politically. Speaking on his Branson, Missouri-based The Jim Bakker Show, the pro-Trump preacher said America is being “ripped apart” by people who hate the president.
Oh Jimbo going just a tad over the top, isn’t he?????
He needs serious psychiatric help like most Evangelical leaders.
I.R.S. Whistle-Blower Met With Senate Staff Members https://t.co/oSrVY9IdCB
— Philip Hackney (@EOTaxProf) November 20, 2019
All of Trumpworld is a scam, grift, con, and criminal conspiracy to protect Trump at all costs and to use govt to enrich Trump and his cronies and to attack his political enemies.
Good Morning Charles. History is a hell of a drug. Thanks for the thread so early.
Aaand here we go. Something to be said for jet lag.
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“Thump, thump” goes the wheels on the bus…
Some people say 2 + 2 = 5, and in a way that’s true….
/
re: #14 Scottish Dragon
Looks like everyone in Trumpworld is going to be looking up at the bottom of the bus. Everyone. No one has clean hands in Trumpworld.
They’re all implicated directly.
re: #8 Targetpractice
“All this Sondland news is really bad news for Democrats and Nancy and Schiff who hate the president….”
/
I really hope RICO is used against the Trump Organization. He’s been a criminal for a long time.
re: #18 jaunte
Nunes is such an incredible hack.
Same opening remarks as yesterday, and last week.
Maybe Trump will give him a cookie.
Is Schiff suggested both Trump and Pompeo could be impeached for refusing to cooperate with Congress?
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) November 20, 2019
Yes. And I think the House should impeach all these fuckers for obstruction, interfering in ongoing investigations, witness tampering, and criminal conspiracy. That’s the baseline charge sheet for every last one in Trumpworld involved in this.
re: #1 Targetpractice
This is just straight up bullshit from Fox’s so-called ‘news division’
Fox News correspondent John Roberts: “President Trump says he doesn’t really know Sondland, and in a way that’s true.”
“I just took a million-dollar donation from him and appointed him to a key ambassadorship, that doesn’t mean I know him from Adam!”
Wingnut world for the past month:
There was no quid pro quo all these witnesses suck and just hate the president.
OK yeah there was a quid pro quo but so what everybody does it this is all just politics.
One of the MONEY QUOTES from Sondland’s opening statement: pic.twitter.com/RLG087skAT
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) November 20, 2019
He’s gonna bring up the nude photos again, isn’t he?
I found something nice to say about Nunes and the Repugs! The interludes when they talk are like TV commercials — a time out to visit the facilities or get snacks. And a break from paying attention.
Can’t wait to hear how Sondland is a Never Trumper who gave me very bad advice and is a terrible person, //
re: #22 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“I just took a million-dollar donation from him and appointed him to a key ambassadorship, that doesn’t mean I know him from Adam!”
“He might even be a Demoncrat who donated just to get appointed ambassador to hurt the POTUS.”
Devin Nunes wants people to believe Robert Mueller’s investigation was started by Democrats. It was NOT. Mueller, a life long Republican, was appointed by Republican Rod Rosenstein who had been appointed by Trump. It was a 100% GOP investigation. #ImpeachmentHearings #Sondland
— (((DeanObeidallah))) (@DeanObeidallah) November 20, 2019
The GOP will go down with the Trumptanic. No one seems to care to do anything differently. They’re that corrupt and complicit/compromised.
I’ve been using that language since before day one, and this is laying it all bare for all to see.
The GOP has abandoned the rule of law and their oaths of office to enable Trump and his corrupt practices including soliciting help from foreign powers to win elections.
re: #29 lawhawk
The GOP will go down with the Trumptanic. No one seems to care to do anything differently. They’re that corrupt and complicit/compromised.
I’ve been using that language since before day one, and this is laying it all bare for all to see.
The GOP has abandoned the rule of law and their oaths of office to enable Trump and his corrupt practices including soliciting help from foreign powers to win elections.
It was also a Republican that paid for the Steele Dossier. Before he became their base’s sweetheart, a lot of the Republicans especially Lindsay Graham were critical of Trump too. Their support of Trump is fake as hell.
re: #29 lawhawk
Devin Nunes wants people to believe Robert Mueller’s investigation was started by Democrats. It was NOT.
Yes, although even if it had been, that would not have made it illegitimate.
re: #9 Joe Bacon 🌹
And let’s check in with the Pulpit Pimps!
Longtime Christian evangelist Jim Bakker claimed Democrats will “kill” President Donald Trump if impeachment can’t remove him from office.
The far right-wing pastor, 79, who gained notoriety for hosting The PTL Club alongside his first wife in the 1970s-80s, predicted Monday that Trump’s Democratic Party critics will attempt to assassinate him if they can’t oust him politically. Speaking on his Branson, Missouri-based The Jim Bakker Show, the pro-Trump preacher said America is being “ripped apart” by people who hate the president.
Oh Jimbo going just a tad over the top, isn’t he?????
They will become increasingly unhinged and hysterical as public support for removing Trump continues to grow.
Nunes tells Sondland that he’ll be “smeared.” Well, at least Devin is giving a heads-up about the Repub strategy for today.
re: #31 Sir John Barron
Yes, although even if it had been, that would not have made it illegitimate.
Absolutely. And also the reason why the Obama administration found the Trump team is that they were investigating the Russians.
re: #26 A hollow voice says, Impeachmoot now!
My husband took the opportunity to go take his morning meds and take a bathroom break.
re: #32 Dr Lizardo
They will become increasingly unhinged and hysterical as public support for removing Trump continues to grow.
I don’t want Trump dead. I want him to spend the rest of his life with his family in prison. (I only wish I had come up with that)
re: #33 Targetpractice
Nunes tells Sondland that he’ll be “smeared.” Well, at least Devin is giving a heads-up about the Repub strategy for today.
Faux News: Actually it’s totally OK for DrumPf and the GOP to smear Sondland and everyone else who opposes our MAGA POTUS. Smearing people is really good values.
nunes: ambassador sondland, you are here today to be smeared. i’m sorry.
sondland: *awkwardly smiles*— fooler initiative (@metroadlib) November 20, 2019
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Nunes tells Sondland that he’ll be “smeared.” Well, at least Devin is giving a heads-up about the Repub strategy for today.
It’s as if the Nixon Plumbers set up a Facebook page and posted regularly about their burglaries.
nunes’ intro definitely seems to have been written without seeing what sondland’s about to say and it’s hilarious
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) November 20, 2019
re: #40 Targetpractice
“I’m sorry to say your going to be smeared by the crooked terrible democrats who hate you and the president and what the holy hell are you saying your rat fink sneaky basterd who hates the president well get you!”
Jre: #30 HappyWarrior
It was also a Republican that paid for the Steele Dossier. Before he became their base’s sweetheart, a lot of the Republicans especially Lindsay Graham were critical of Trump too. Their support of Trump is fake as hell.
Yeah, well, that was then, this is now.
Yes, a lot of GOPers were critical of Trump. But once they realized that, for whatever perverse reasons, only King Orangeanus could command a large personality-cult bloc of their voting base, they changed their tune pretty quick….
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J
Yeah, well, that was then, this is now.
Yes, a lot of GOPers were critical of Trump. But once they realized that, for whatever perverse reasons, only King Orangeanus could command a large personality-cult bloc of their voting base, they changed their tune pretty quick….
It’s scary as shit.
re: #38 goddamnedfrank
Nunes: But you have to admit you’ve seen how we’ve smeared the other witnesses including those in uniform
Democrats: Sondland is here to testify as to his direct knowledge of Trumpworld misconduct from Trump on down.
Nunes: Sondland will be smeared by Democrats for telling everyone this laundry list of crimes they allege Trump did *and Nunes doesn’t seem to get that Sondland’s opening statement was known and that he’s implicating Trumpworld in all the crimes Nunes just laid out*.
It’s as though the GOP didn’t do their homework, didn’t care, and will now claim that their research was stuck on a secret server by accident.
re: #45 lawhawk
Congressional hearings, when public, are not really about investigating but about making clips for running on mass media and campaign outlets.
Nunes is just recording snippets that will be circulated by his people, and Fox.
re: #45 lawhawk
Democrats: Sondland is here to testify as to his direct knowledge of Trumpworld misconduct from Trump on down.
Nunes: Sondland will be smeared by Democrats for telling everyone this laundry list of crimes they allege Trump did *and Nunes doesn’t seem to get that Sondland’s opening statement was known and that he’s implicating Trumpworld in all the crimes Nunes just laid out*.
It’s as though the GOP didn’t do their homework, didn’t care, and will now claim that their research was stuck on a secret server by accident.
Wednesdays during Infrastructure Week are always the least eventful.
Again, Sondland is making eye contact. Morrison basically couldn’t make eye contact at all yesterday.
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) November 20, 2019
Sitting here listening to @RepAdamSchiff on the heels of the Amb. Sondland testimony, I am reminded that none of this happening today would have occurred if Dems had not won control of the House in 2018. Elections have consequences. Voting matters.
— adrienneelrod (@adrienneelrod) November 20, 2019
Elections have consequences. All elections matter. And only thing that will stop the GOP is defeating them in election after election from now until the end of time. The GOP has done incalculable damage with Trumpworld and the reshaping of the judiciary with right wing extremists in lifetime appointments.
NUNES: I am sorry to say you will be smeared today -
SONDLAND: the president did a crime
NUNES: - by me— Jake Maccoby (@jdmaccoby) November 20, 2019
Sondland opener: hey, really, I’m a good guy!
All those things I said earlier? Just because I didn’t have my notes! Nothing to do with perjury, really!
re: #9 Joe Bacon 🌹
And let’s check in with the Pulpit Pimps!
Longtime Christian evangelist Jim Bakker claimed Democrats will “kill” President Donald Trump if impeachment can’t remove him from office.
The far right-wing pastor, 79, who gained notoriety for hosting The PTL Club alongside his first wife in the 1970s-80s, predicted Monday that Trump’s Democratic Party critics will attempt to assassinate him if they can’t oust him politically. Speaking on his Branson, Missouri-based The Jim Bakker Show, the pro-Trump preacher said America is being “ripped apart” by people who hate the president.
Oh Jimbo going just a tad over the top, isn’t he?????
He’s sowing the fertile ground he can then work if Trump suddenly has the “big one” and keels over.
Sondland is accusing Pompeo and State of a coverup by refusing to allow access to papers that are not classified and should be available. It’s part of Trumpworld’s ongoing stonewalling of the investigation.
This is directly implicating Trumpworld in obstruction and interference in federal investigations.
ICYMI: Can Gordon Sondland invoke the Fifth Amendment? #MTPDaily @BarbMcQuade: “He’s likely already waived that privilege. … If you have talked about the subject matter you have waived it as to other questions relating to the subject matter.” pic.twitter.com/JSWQMNDaCB
— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) November 19, 2019
Here comes that bus.
‘We followed the president’s orders.’
did he just say that?
did you hear that!!!!!
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He’s sowing the fertile ground he can then work if Trump suddenly has the “big one” and keels over.
I have no doubt that if Trump were to die tomorrow, they would claim that Pelosi, Schiff, and the “Deep State” had him murdered because you know we’re just eager for President Pence.
re: #50 Stanley Sea
Dayum.
Blasting the State Dept.
Least transparent admin ever. Taxes, grades, recent health event records, and official records of policy and circumstance doing the business of the nation.
Is any amount of wrongdoing too much for the GOP Senate?
SONDLAND:
“My lawyers & I have made multiple requests to @StateDept & WH for these materials. Yet these materials were not provided to me. They’ve also refused to share these materials with this Cmte. These docs are not classified & in fairness, should have been made available.”— Jesse Lehrich (@JesseLehrich) November 20, 2019
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) November 20, 2019
re: #52 A hollow voice says, Impeachmoot now!
Sondland opener: hey, really,
I’m a good guy!I want to stay out of prison.All those things I said earlier? Just because I didn’t have my notes! Nothing to do with perjury, really!
Ya know, when I said on Monday that I expected Sondland’s testimony to be the biggest show this week, I genuinely did not expect him to sing like a canary.
re: #63 Belafon
He’s making the (im)plausible argument that he couldn’t be truthful because he wasn’t able to view the papers to refresh his recollection and state truthfully what happened because Pompeo and Trump were obstructing their release to the House investigation.
It’s an out, but one that directly implicates Pompeo and Trump in multiple federal felonies.
re: #56 makeitstop
Here comes that bus.
‘We followed the president’s orders.’
HOW MUCH IS SCHIFF AND NANCY PAYING YOUR FOR YOUR TESTIMONY AND BETRAYAL HERE TODAY!!!
re: #64 Targetpractice
Ya know, when I said on Monday that I expected Sondland’s testimony to be the biggest show this week, I genuinely did not expect him to sing like a canary.
To be the biggest show, he would have to outdo Vindeman.
The only Republican defense remaining—and understand that by LAW it’s NOT A DEFENSE—is that it was in fact legal for President Trump to knowingly condition official U.S. acts on acts by foreign actors that personally benefitted him and were not tied to the U.S. national interest.
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) November 20, 2019
I have no sympathy for fellow Jews who attempt to leverage their family’s histories as some sort of defense shield for their wrong doing. My family fled Europe too, I’m not out there throwing kids in cages or shaking down an ally to do my boss’s political bidding. https://t.co/JmgBvvMJeM
— scary lawyerguy (@scarylawyerguy) November 20, 2019
re: #68 Targetpractice
Not illegal! Not a crime! Checkmate libtard!
re: #69 lawhawk
Mine fled Europe too. My ancestors would be disgusted by a guy like Trump.
I feel Sondland hired good lawyers, and he is listening to them.
re: #15 Sir John Barron
Some people say 2 + 2 = 5, and in a way that’s true….
/
It is a Radiohead song.
Sondland just drove the bus over Rudy & Trump, reversed, and used their guts for burnout smoke oil :)
cc@thespybrief @LouiseMensch @TheRickWilson pic.twitter.com/8IrZJp83WQ— Pete EVANS (@911CORLEBRA777) November 20, 2019
re: #66 Sir John Barron
HOW MUCH IS SCHIFF AND NANCY PAYING YOUR FOR YOUR TESTIMONY AND BETRAYAL HERE TODAY!!!
But seriously - where the hell do Nunes and Jordan go from here?
I cannot wait to see these clowns try to address these charges, it’s gonna be hilarious.
re: #72 Ming5000
I feel Sondland hired good lawyers, and he is listening to them.
Better than buying the Ambassadorship to the EU which he was not qualified for that.
re: #75 makeitstop
But seriously - where the hell do Nunes and Jordan go from here?
I cannot wait to see these clowns try to address these charges, it’s gonna be hilarious.
Their narrative I think is going to be that the President can do whatever he wants.
re: #59 Rightwingconspirator
Least transparent admin ever. Taxes, grades, recent health event records, and official records of policy and circumstance doing the business of the nation.
Is any amount of wrongdoing too much for the GOP Senate?
No.
History will record the real unsung heroes of this impeachment inquiry are the jurors of Roger’s Stone trial.
By doing their job earnestly and quickly, the calculus changed. #Sondland doesn’t change his testimony and drop $1,000,000 of dimes on the admin without them acting— Shannon4OH (@ShannonFreshour) November 20, 2019
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Ya know, when I said on Monday that I expected Sondland’s testimony to be the biggest show this week, I genuinely did not expect him to sing like a canary.
He’s singing like the Mormon Tabernacle Choir!
“they knew what we were doing and why”
Yep, Sondland has good lawyers
NEWWWS
Worried White House tried to get a sneak peak at what “wild card” Amb. Sondland would say … they were politely rebuffed. Me @jdawsey1https://t.co/QAWETihdBr— Carol Leonnig (@CarolLeonnig) November 20, 2019
And *bam!*, there’s Bolton hit by the bus’ rear view mirror.
John Cole has the right picture: Shorter Gordon Sondland
Go see the picture. I would copy it over, but I’m at work.
He’s just shoveling them under the bus wholesale.
Republicans react to #Sonland testimony. pic.twitter.com/iq9lDgD27y
— ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) November 20, 2019
I keep on saying this but Trump cannot win when he’s not controlling the narrative. And he hasn’t been able to do it since November 2016. He has few political victories as President and he has no idea how to respond to adversity.
re: #75 makeitstop
But seriously - where the hell do Nunes and Jordan go from here?
I cannot wait to see these clowns try to address these charges, it’s gonna be hilarious.
Nunes keeps to his opening statement and immediately tries to smear Sondland.
re: #77 HappyWarrior
Their narrative I think is going to be that the President can do whatever he wants.
Yeah that’s really been it from the start. They’ve been using both arguments simultaneously:
1. POTUS didn’t do the bad thing you said. This is just an inquisition and illegal coup witch hunt.
2. OK yeah he did the thing but it wasn’t bad or wrong or illegal this is just an inquisition witch hunt.
Sondaland is going full Tekashi this morning. Wow.
— Bakari Sellers (@Bakari_Sellers) November 20, 2019
re: #91 Sir John Barron
Yeah that’s really been it from the start. They’ve been using both arguments simultaneously:
1. POTUS didn’t do the bad thing you said. This is just an inquisition and illegal coup witch hunt.
2. OK yeah he did the thing but it wasn’t bad or wrong or illegal this is just an inquisition witch hunt.
Yeah and it’s not working. The only people who believe are the people who would get fed dog food by Trump and call it the best surf and turf they’ve ever had.
re: #90 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Nunes keeps to his opening statement and immediately tries to smear Sondland.
wont work
sondland has got ahold of himself and his narrative
Woo boy to be a fly on the wall in the cubicle of whichever reporter Rudy Giuliani just butt dialed.
— Tom Brennan Blue Checkmark (@Brennanator) November 20, 2019
Is think I just see soul of the Sondland lawyer leave him body.
— Rogue Melania🍸🍸🍸 (@RogueFirstLady) November 20, 2019
The President is going to go through some things this morning.
— David Cicilline (@davidcicilline) November 20, 2019
re: #97 Amory Blaine
Not enough pizzazz for Chuck Todd.
He’ll get on it as soon as Gordon Sondland reveals his true identity as Hillary Clinton.
re: #89 HappyWarrior
I keep on saying this but Trump cannot win when he’s not controlling the narrative. And he hasn’t been able to do it since November 2016. He has few political victories as President and he has no idea how to respond to adversity.
He’s done 2 things that he thinks are his victories, but…
The judges? That’s entirely McConnell’s doing. and
Tax cuts? Entirely Paul Ryan.
since the beginning they were always so smug because they thought they never be caught or anything would ever be uncovered. about anything.
they stonewallled: subpoenas, testimony and docs
sondland is applying the crowbar
saying all the evidence is there hidden behind stonewall
since it was a perfect call and no one did anything wrong, it’s gonna be harder and harder to claim no one needs to testify or see any of the written record. conversly, it’ll be one big article of the impeachment
re: #101 sagehen
He’s done 2 things that he thinks are his victories, but…
The judges? That’s entirely McConnell’s doing. and
Tax cuts? Entirely Paul Ryan.
100% correct. He’s a failure.
I can’t imagine Bolton is feeling too good today about withholding his testimony until the courts rule.
The GOP had a chance to cauterize this wound by turning on Trump. They chose instead to ride or die with him.
Sometimes you end up with “die.”— Jeff Fecke (@jkfecke) November 20, 2019
#Sondland: pic.twitter.com/6sgKhPjF05
— ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) November 20, 2019
What was that bout Bolton requesting Rudy’s contact info? Guess we’ll find out once questioning starts…
re: #105 jaunte
And I hope it ruins their party’s chances electorally and begins the death of the GOP as a political party.
. @SenRonJohnson must recuse from Senate trial (& resign). https://t.co/1QCmvdYSOX
— Mimi Rocah (@Mimirocah1) November 20, 2019
re: #65 lawhawk
He’s making the (im)plausible argument that he couldn’t be truthful because he wasn’t able to view the papers to refresh his recollection and state truthfully what happened because Pompeo and Trump were obstructing their release to the House investigation.
It’s an out, but one that directly implicates Pompeo and Trump in multiple federal felonies.
May well be enough to keep out of perjury charges tho.
re: #110 Targetpractice
Sigh Wisconsin. You had the chance to have Russ Feingold twice over this guy. Twice.
I wonder if Nunes is going to ask for a recess after Sondland’s opening
re: #110 Targetpractice
And BOOM! goes the dynamite.
my take
sondland’s first stance when he first testified was based on the idea that everything behind the stone wall would stay there
then it turned out that the testimony of the others was enough to damage him personally
then he decided “nope, im not gonna be holding the bag for this bunch”
so today he’s laying out everything that they’re hiding and why no one else is testifying
Has the rage tweeting from the POTUS who’s too busy working to watch the hearings started yet?
This was never ever about corruption to Trump. It was about hurting a potential rival. That’s all this was ever about. He was willing to screw over Ukraine to get it. Trump is easily the worst President in our history also arguably one of the worst people in American history to have any sort of power.
re: #110 Targetpractice
I hope they implicate every one of them that went to Russia last July 4th.
I don’t usually eat popcorn with breakfast but I’m making a special exception today.
With as busy as the EU Ambassador was with all things Ukraine, how did he have time to oversee the million dollar reno on his digs in Brussels?
re: #117 Sir John Barron
Has the rage tweeting from the POTUS who’s too busy working to watch the hearings started yet?
not yet. last tweet was:
Nancy Pelosi will go down as the least productive Speaker of the House in history. She is dominated by AOC Plus 3 and the Radical Left. Mexico and Canada, after waiting for 6 months to be approved, are ready to flee - and who can blame them? Too bad!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 20, 2019
Listen to Sondland and you’ll understand why America elected Donald Trump president to get rid of people like Sondland.
— Brent Bozell (@BrentBozell) November 20, 2019
Elect Trump to Get Rid Of Trump Appointees!
While Sondland’s given up his co-conspirators, he’s still trying to maintain his own innocence as to what he knew and when. I suspect that will be what the Repubs try to attack him up, that he’s trying to paint himself as an “innocent” victim of Rudy’s maleficence.
Wow, all these people who say they knew Trump was SINGULARLY obsessed with investigating ONE Ukrainian company and NO OTHERS who ALSO didn’t even IMAGINE that Hunter Biden being on the board of that company was ANY part of Trump’s SINGULAR interest in that ONE company.
Sorry—no.— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) November 20, 2019
re: #101 sagehen
He’s done 2 things that he thinks are his victories, but…
The judges? That’s entirely McConnell’s doing. and
Tax cuts? Entirely Paul Ryan.
re: #103 HappyWarrior
100% correct. He’s a failure.
They might not be his achievements, but his presence in the office is what allowed McConnell and Paul Ryan to succeed in what they did. It’s not that Trump himself has anything to hang his hat on, but that he’s the rubber stamp for the rest of the GOP’s pathologies. That’s a significant part of why they’re so gung-ho for him. Without that magic R in the White House, they couldn’t get all their unicorns and more.
“It became more and more difficult to secure this meeting because more conditions were placed on this meeting,” Sondland says.
— Brandi Buchman (@BBuchman_CNS) November 20, 2019
David Holmes testified that Trump only cares about ‘big stuff’ that effects Trump personally. This is what he told Sondland.
Today, Sondland does not dispute that account.— Brandi Buchman (@BBuchman_CNS) November 20, 2019
re: #123 jaunte
Listen to Sondland and you’ll understand why America elected Donald Trump president to get rid of people like Sondland.
— Brent Bozell
You can’t make this stuff up. They really tweet things like this.
re: #118 HappyWarrior
This was never ever about corruption to Trump. It was about hurting a potential rival. That’s all this was ever about. He was willing to screw over Ukraine to get it. Trump is easily the worst President in our history also arguably one of the worst people in American history to have any sort of power.
that’s why ‘the president can do whatever he wants’ wont fly
…for personal gain
re: #123 jaunte
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Elect Trump to Get Rid Of Trump Appointees!
that’s like electing Elvis to get all of the drugs off of the street.
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re: #122 Backwoods_Sleuth
not yet. last tweet was:
She was already Speaker of the House back when he was pretending to fire people on TV. Nancy will be remembered as one of the great statespeople of this disturbing era. Donald will be remembered as an ugly stain.
“You don’t dispute that part of Mr. Holmes recollection?”.
“No”
re: #128 Sir John Barron
“These are not the corrupt appointees to a corrupt administration you’re looking for.”
i have continuum of insidiousness first album on vinyl
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) November 20, 2019
re: #123 jaunte
Listen to Sondland and you’ll understand why America elected Donald Trump president to get rid of people like Sondland.
— Brent Bozell
So the problem with what Sondland is saying is…what exactly?
re: #124 Targetpractice
While Sondland’s given up his co-conspirators, he’s still trying to maintain his own innocence as to what he knew and when. I suspect that will be what the Repubs try to attack him up, that he’s trying to paint himself as an “innocent” victim of Rudy’s maleficence.
I wonder if Schiff will let Goldman (I think that was the counsel’s name from yesterday) ask additional questions?
re: #134 Targetpractice
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Mr. Insidious pic.twitter.com/1gCWWNrsnB
— ProfHelen (@Helenhs) November 20, 2019
re: #123 jaunte
Elect Trump to Get Rid Of Trump Appointees!
“If we just let Trump hire and fire enough people, only the good ones will be left.”
re: #137 Backwoods_Sleuth
Why you wanna ruin my one good eye?
re: #123 jaunte
Elect Trump to Get Rid Of Trump Appointees!
Yeah I agree Brent that Sondland shouldn’t have been Ambassador to the EU. However, the people who should have been considered for that job are people who you screech are deep staters. Face it, Brent, you want people who pledge absolute loyalty to Trump to be in our government. That’s what you want. Because you’re a fascist son of a bitch just like your Uncle Bill Buckley was. A man who hates representative democracy and everything that comes with it.
— Nu Wexler (@wexler) November 20, 2019
re: #100 HappyWarrior
He’ll get on it as soon as Gordon Sondland reveals his true identity as Hillary Clinton.
Wouldn’t be surprised if Chuck U has Alex Jones come on and allege Sondland is an agent of the Bilderbergers!
I would love to send Ambassador Sondland, a really good man and great American, to testify, but unfortunately he would be testifying before a totally compromised kangaroo court, where Republican’s rights have been taken away, and true facts are not allowed out for the public….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 8, 2019
re: #143 Amory Blaine
There’s always a tweet….
re: #135 Sir John Barron
So the problem with what Sondland is saying is…what exactly?
That he had a problem with what Trump did. Bozell has basically acknowledged that he thinks our civil servants should be subservient to the will of the President if it’s a President he agrees with. Meanwhile if it’s Obama and we saw him in the Obama years, it’s to make out those same public servants out to be evil for executing the day to day decisions that the executive branch makes.
i called the president directly
i have no idea who sondland is
Sondland: Yes, Pompeo was “was aware of the connections … between the investigations and the White House meeting and the security assistance.” pic.twitter.com/CjGb5GBoLy
— The Moscow Project (@moscow_project) November 20, 2019
re: #123 jaunte
Elect Trump to Get Rid Of Trump Appointees!
What was it that Mooo Nunes said about Sondland about to be smeared?
shorter Sondland testimony: pic.twitter.com/ES912lNiH0
— Hayes Brown (@HayesBrown) November 20, 2019
re: #92 Stanley Sea
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Gordon Sondland right now pic.twitter.com/Ccoa3y5TFN
— Ashley Alese Edwards (@AshleyAlese) November 20, 2019
He comes across as without guile or manipulation - unlike Volker and Morrison yesterday.
He isn’t pausing to finesse his answers. He isn’t choosing words artfully so as to shade his meaning.
He is speaking with the unfiltered ease of someone who seemingly sees no risk in truth.— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) November 20, 2019
This testimony isn’t just exposing vast, organized crime, it’s revealing to America’s allies that they can’t trust us to act in good faith and that a transaction with the United States comes with an expectation of corruption.
That’s what’s at stake here.— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) November 20, 2019
re: #151 Targetpractice
It’s comfortable to be wealthy.
lol, even the Trump cult PR machine know the jig is up
“Everyone was in the loop” - said slowly numerous times by Ambassador Sondland. A 23 page detailed opening statement that’s very damaging to many of the defenses by the GOP. It’ll be fascinating to see the cross examination here. #ImpeachmentHearings
— Bret Baier (@BretBaier) November 20, 2019
Well, I was away from the computer and TV for a few minutes and now I see “President Pelosi” is pending. I take it things are not going well for the administration this morning.
— ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) November 20, 2019
#Sondland: pic.twitter.com/6sgKhPjF05
— ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) November 20, 2019
Thank you, sir. You are truly an inspiration to people who are the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet.
— Mike Drucker (@MikeDrucker) November 20, 2019
I’m guessing Sondland won’t be continuing as Trump’s ambassador to the EU.
— Tony Schwartz (@tonyschwartz) November 20, 2019
Shorter Sondland testimony: pic.twitter.com/Z1fvMKeDr4
— Mieke Eoyang (@MiekeEoyang) November 20, 2019
re: #152 jaunte
And while that is indeed disturbing, the hearings are also showing that there is a part of America that is willing to expose it. We just have to make sure that part of America gains power next year.
Those statements likely pose some of the greatest legal jeopardy for Sondland.
They make him an agent of the conspiracy in contrast with his depiction that he was an external actor forced to brush up against the conspiracy to merely achieve lawful and appropriate ends.— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) November 20, 2019
re: #154 b.d. (Where is Rudy?)
lol, even the Trump cult PR machine know the jig is up
“It’ll be fascinating to see the cross examination here.”
We go live to monkeys flnging poop at each other.
re: #154 b.d. (Where is Rudy?)
Nunes: Ambassador Sondland, you said “Everyone was in the loop”.
Sondland: Correct.
Nunes: Was my mother in the loop?
Sondland: Um, no
Nunes: Ah, ha! So not EVERYONE was in the loop! You lied!— ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) November 20, 2019
Sondland just got to a core issue - Trump didn’t want the Biden investigation, just the *announcement* of the investigation: “(Pres. Zelensky) had to announce the investigations. He didn’t actually have to do them.”
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) November 20, 2019
I wonder where Trump could have gotten the kooky idea an announcement of an investigation holds great power. Oh right, @Comey sent that letter to Congress 11 days before Election Day saying he was
reopening the Clinton email server investigation. WHAT A COINCIDENCE https://t.co/32vu9bw1uw — scary lawyerguy (@scarylawyerguy) November 20, 2019
re: #137 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Looks like he’s getting the Little Nicky Pineapple treatment!
re: #163 Belafon
“It’ll be fascinating to see the cross examination here.”
We go live to monkeys flnging poop at each other.
It will be fascinating considering that the guy warning the Ambassador to watch out for being smeared will now be the main guy smearing him.
You know your instructions, co-conspirators:
“BOOOOOO! LOCK HIM UP!”
President Donald Trump is coming to Austin on Wednesday. Here’s what to expect.
re: #165 lawhawk
Which really undercuts the idea he was concerned about corruption, he wanted to have the idea that it looked like he cared about corruption. Just like he likes ot present the idea that he cares about anything other than himself.
re: #165 lawhawk
No, because if it had come out that nothing inappropriate had happened, then that would have been even worse for Trump.
Trump watching Sondland testimony, WH official says.
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) November 20, 2019
Good.
Goldman is now up and we’ll be off to the races…
Goldman asks if Sondland if he was worried about making a call to Trump from plain ol’ cellphone.
Sondy says he has unclassified convos with people from unsecured landlines all the time. Said Trump knew it was an unsecured line and had no apparent issue with it.— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) November 20, 2019
My god.
If we as a nation allow Trump and his cronies to remain in power after THIS, we have no excuse for anything anymore.
With that discussion of notes and memory-jogging, Goldman smeared Sondland.
All over the floor of the hearing room.
re: #173 Belafon
But he had to know that the investigation would be concluded long after the election was over, and the appearance that there was an “investigation” would be enough to cloud Biden’s run and shape the election to Trump’s benefit.
It’s the same way Comey announced that an investigation was looking at Clinton’s emails just days before the election all while the FBI was silent about ongoing investigations into Trump’s cronies for being undeclared foreign agents (hint: they were).
Sondland is asked if he disputes he told Trump that Zelensky “loves your ass.” His response? “Sounds like something I would say.”
— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) November 20, 2019
Wildest Infrastructure Week since last week.
SONDLAND says he and Trump swear a lot in their conversations.
“That’s how president Trump and I communicate, a lot of four letter words.”— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) November 20, 2019
re: #181 Backwoods_Sleuth
That’s certainly a longstanding trademark of the Old Boys Club (tm)
What airport lounge is Rudy watching this from?
And who is he dressed as?
Did the Marmalade Shitcannon fire Sondland yet?
re: #181 Backwoods_Sleuth
Hey Franklin Graham, care to comment on these great values and awesome character being displayed?
re: #183 Mescalero09
What airport lounge is Rudy watching this from?
And who is he dressed as?
Be on the look out for this woman.
finally - a distinction between ‘investigations’ and just announcing them
No one ever said anything about actually carrying out the investigation - only that it would be announced publicly. - Sondland.
re: #185 Sir John Barron
Hey Franklin Graham, care to comment on these great values and awesome character being displayed?
Franky’s backsliding with the Crystal Meth right now….
re: #186 Ming5000
Why can’t Republicans design anything well?
Nunes isn’t in the room. Probably getting new orders from the White House
— Angry Staffer (@AngrierWHStaff) November 20, 2019
This fucking average white guy is going to take down a president.
— ana marie cox (@anamariecox) November 20, 2019
The GOP rebuttal to Sondland’s testimony ⬇️⬇️⬇️ https://t.co/y5CgFCHsnW
— Jeremy Herb (@jeremyherb) November 20, 2019
Not that it will matter, but I sent this to Sen. Johnson under my name a moment ago:
How often do your handlers in Moscow give you orders? Only once a year during your 4th of July visit to our nations Enemies? Or do they give you further orders through the year?
Your Hatred of America and our constitution is was known from that trip in July. Now today we have proof of your involvement in the bribery scandal with Ukraine’s President.
The time has come for you to resign so that Wisconsin can have a senator that supports US not Trump and not the Russian Federation over the US Constitution.
Resign!
re: #184 Joe Bacon 🌹
upding for Marmalade Shitcannon
Presumably an effort to save their president, and they make a sign that looks like it’s advertising a garage sale.
re: #193 KGxvi
I’m sure he’ll get a nice book deal out of it.
Ironic the the Grammy nominations are buried in the news by someone singing.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) November 20, 2019
The bus has squashed Pompeo so flat, he’s fucking spatchcocked and ready for roasting.
With thanks to @Stonekettle for a lovely new word.— Harry Turtledove (@HNTurtledove) November 20, 2019
re: #200 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
I’m sure that these weren’t the end times that Pompeo was looking for.
What’s the Russian translation for “Lordy there are tapes”? https://t.co/mmL0tr4WoW
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) November 20, 2019
re: #157 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
The ratio was becoming a sight to behold
— 𝘞𝘉 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨 🍕🐀 (@FormerDirtDart) November 20, 2019
Ironic the the Grammy nominations are buried in the news by someone singing.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) November 20, 2019
This is fuckin’ brutal:
In Memoriam: The GOP’s “No Quid Pro Quo” Defense pic.twitter.com/g28PL9N0C5
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) November 20, 2019
re: #161 Belafon
And while that is indeed disturbing, the hearings are also showing that there is a part of America that is willing to expose it. We just have to make sure that part of America gains power next year.
In 1974, I remember my Dad’s parents being absolutely awestruck that this was a country where a corrupt president could be removed without a single shot being fired.
re: #199 lawhawk
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Grammies? Oh, that’s the award for top selling records of the year, right?
/ (maybe 1/4)
re: #201 HappyWarrior
I’m sure that these weren’t the end times that Pompeo was looking for.
“”No one lights a lamp and hides it in a clay jar or puts it under a bed. Instead, they put it on a stand, so that those who come in can see the light. For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open. Therefore consider carefully how you listen. Whoever has will be given more; whoever does not have, even what they think they have will be taken from them.”
Luke 8:17 -18
Fun fact: This passage appears just a few paragraphs after the parable that teaches us we reap what we sow.
Amazing how many phone conversations Trump had with somebody he didn’t know.
re: #210 BeachDem
Amazing how many phone conversations Trump had with somebody he didn’t know.
Wasn’t Sondland a fellow hotelier and a big fundraiser for him? Yeah he fucking knows him.
re: #202 Backwoods_Sleuth
Maybe, according to Russian/English translation tool:
Лорди, я надеюсь, что есть записи
Lordi, ya nadeyus’, chto yest’ zapisi
What snappy Bible verse will Marco Rubio Tweet today?
Just last month, Trump was calling Sondland “highly respected”. pic.twitter.com/GfB87XfDQV
— Matt Rogers 🎙 (@Politidope) November 20, 2019
re: #158 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’m guessing Sondland won’t be continuing as Trump’s ambassador to the EU.
No, he will be reassigned directly to Ukraine…
re: #215 Backwoods_Sleuth
Yeah but you see that was before he testified against Trump.
Sondland is pleading the 5th without pleading the 5th
re: #214 Mescalero09
What snappy Bible verse will Marco Rubio Tweet today?
He’ll probably try to own the Libs with the old “Plank in the Eye” scolding.
re: #216 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
No, he will be reassigned directly to Ukraine…
Uh it doesn’t work that way.
re: #219 Eclectic Cyborg
He’ll probably try to own the Libs with the old “Plank in the Eye” scolding.
I would love to see an actual theological scholar show Rubio up for the empty suit he is as a man, senator, and theologian.
re: #215 Backwoods_Sleuth
That was before he remembered that he didn’t actually remember Sondland.
re: #212 HappyWarrior
Wasn’t Sondland a fellow hotelier and a big fundraiser for him? Yeah he fucking knows him.
he gave the inaugural $1,000,000.00
Goldman’s just gotten Sondland into possibly perjuring himself re: testimony and conversations with Trump. Or perjury for Taylor and Morrison.
They’re all going to throw everyone else under the bus.
You know though? In a way, Putin got his goal achieved. However, we can still beat him by having a new President that will be transparent and also fight back against Putin’s attempts to reap division and chaos in our country.
— 𝘞𝘉 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨 🍕🐀 (@FormerDirtDart) November 20, 2019
Here’s another text exchange to refresh your recollection….
*ouch*
It was such an abrupt, upfront implication of Trump, the Goldman questioning is almost anti-climactic. Boring.
Sondland blurted out the spoilers in his opening remarks.
“THE PLANE CRASHED. THEY’RE ALL DEAD.”
Well, Jeez, that really takes the drama out of binge-watching “Lost”.— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) November 20, 2019
re: #227 Jay C
“Jesus wept” ?
That’s what Marco’s wife says to him whenever he gets home. And yeah that’s a low blow but I am not going to show any respect to a man who acts obnoxiously pious yet is the first person as far as I know made a small penis joke on a presidential debate platform.
re: #214 Mescalero09
What snappy Bible verse will Marco Rubio Tweet today?
He’ll tweet something from Ayn Rand!
re: #232 Joe Bacon 🌹
He’ll tweet something from Ayn Rand!
Nah. Marco is the kind of guy who tweets Bible verses while living his life and actual principles in accordance with Rand. He’s not the same kind of flake like Paul Ryan who claims to be a good Catholic boy while getting his philosophy from that kook.
Testifying that the money was hinged only on an announcement of an investigation is very damning info. Shows Trump didn’t care about corruption, only the appearance of anti corruption. Blows the only real defense the gop has.
If that text says you spoke to Trump, did you? If I did, I did.
Aid was contingent on announcement, but didn’t hear that directly from Trump.
By Sept 8, he was absolutely convinced.
re: #128 Sir John Barron
You can’t make this stuff up. They really tweet things like this.
Lets see how long it takes before Bozell backtracks.
re: #234 Amory Blaine
Testifying that the money was hinged only on an announcement of an investigation is very damning info. Shows Trump didn’t care about corruption, only the appearance of anti corruption. Blows the only real defense the gop has.
re: #236 Eric The Fruit Bat
Lets see how long it takes before Bozell backtracks.
He deleted the tweet. so.
5-10 break…so, that means 20 minutes, folks. Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em.
Goldman’s time is up.
Recess for 5 minutes as Nunes needs time to regroup and come up with another bunch of lies and smears to protect Trumpworld.
Nunes calls for a break. LOL
They’re so fucked.
Mr Nunez looks like he thought he was shitting his own pants, but then realized he was actually shitting minority counsel’s pants.
Nunes needs a break to change his.underpants.
re: #241 makeitstop
Nunes calls for a break. LOL
They’re so fucked.
Is he waving a white towel? I guess that would be too much to ask.
Maybe team GOP needs time to make another blaring poster board thing distraction.
a break
oh good, cause i gotta pee
Trump is still fucked, but CBS pundits are claiming that Sondland didn’t seal the deal on Trump-Sondland discussion re: quid pro quo.
Circumstantial evidence is more than enough to convict someone for this.
Walter Reed standing by for phase two of the physical.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) November 20, 2019
re: #234 Amory Blaine
Testifying that the money was hinged only on an announcement of an investigation is very damning info. Shows Trump didn’t care about corruption, only the appearance of anti corruption. Blows the only real defense the gop has.
Trump was too ham-handed to even think to build some layers of deniability into this: to have Zelinsky declare a series of investigations into corruption in general, one of which would name the Bidens, for example.
re: #248 lawhawk
Trump is still fucked, but CBS pundits are claiming that Sondland didn’t seal the deal on Trump-Sondland discussion re: quid pro quo.
Circumstantial evidence is more than enough to convict someone for this.
If Sondland was the singular fact witness, then it would be convincing to say that he hadn’t nailed the WH to the wall.
But he’s not, he’s just the latest bombshell dropper in a series of them, with more still to come. The totality of the evidence so far would be enough to secure an indictment, if not a conviction, in virtually any jurisdiction you care to name in this country.
re: #248 lawhawk
Trump is still fucked, but CBS pundits are claiming that Sondland didn’t seal the deal on Trump-Sondland discussion re: quid pro quo.
Circumstantial evidence is more than enough to convict someone for this.
my summary is he’s pointing at all of them
over there - look over there!!!!
- all who wont / cant testify
- all the documents, emails, texts, call records, etc that the admin is hiding / holding back
they all know
they all knew
they’re hiding it all hoping it wont see the light of day
re: #247 Ming5000
Schiff, “Let’s take a 5 or 10 minute break.”
Caster, “We’re fuuuuuuuu…”[Embedded content]
Gym looking particularly grubby today.
re: #248 lawhawk
Trump is still fucked, but CBS pundits are claiming that Sondland didn’t seal the deal on Trump-Sondland discussion re: quid pro quo.
Circumstantial evidence is more than enough to convict someone for this.
LOLwhut? CBS pundits still not convinced?
Schiff expected to make a statement to the press in moments
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) November 20, 2019
re: #250 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Trump was too ham-handed to even think to build some layers of deniability into this: to have Zelinsky declare a series of investigations into corruption in general, one of which would name the Bidens, for example.
as electoral-vote.com ‘opined’ the other day
he should have called zelensky personally on a burner phone
no one else involved.
Check out Nunes’ face, he appears to be sweating fiercely at the moment.
The White House is apparently already pivoting toward a fevered new defense that while all of this may be true, it was actually Giuliani acting independently who converted reasonable asks into unlawful extortion.
Watch the curb, Rudy. There’s a bus coming.— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) November 20, 2019
PIZAZZ delivered
— Stephanie Ruhle (@SRuhle) November 20, 2019
re: #239 Targetpractice
5-10 break…so, that means 20 minutes, folks. Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em.
Doesn’t everyone just DVR it and play it at their leisure? That’s my practice — and then I don’t have time to listen to most of it anyway.
re: #255 lawhawk
he did
and he nailed it
the scheme was pervasive
directed by the president
for his personal benefit
and specifically said that’s why they dont want anyone to testify or release dox
Schiff expected to make a statement to the press in moments
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) November 20, 2019
re: #246 DangerMan (misuser of the sarc tag)
a break
oh good, cause i gotta pee
You and Gordon Sondland, I’d guess: from all the water he’s been chugging while testifying….
re: #262 Jay C
You and Gordon Sondland, I’d guess: from all the water he’s been chugging while testifying….
well all the speculation of him taking the fifth, etc. he didnt do badly. maintained his composure. tried to thread the needle. i guess that’ll make a guy thirsty
BREAKING: “The veneer has been torn away,” says @RepAdamSchiff, explaining that we now know the full extent of the extortion scheme personally directed by @realDonaldTrump and the unprecedented obstruction of Congress undertaken by Trump and @SecPompeo. #SondlandTestimony pic.twitter.com/Hq9qLaPG5n
— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) November 20, 2019
Oh my god. Nunes’ face moments ago. pic.twitter.com/Mku0P491cE
— John Aravosis🇺🇸 (@aravosis) November 20, 2019
Now we have a title for this episode. https://t.co/s9uE75S0X8
— Lawrence O’Donnell (@Lawrence) November 20, 2019
If I was still a Congressional staffer, I’d hand this question to @RepAdamSchiff
Q: Ambassador Sondland, since the State Dept won’t give you any relevant documents, were the emails you’re quoting today sent via your personal unsecured email?— Lawrence O’Donnell (@Lawrence) November 20, 2019
re: #265 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Cow Boy is about to have a rough day.
What are the odds that Nunes and Jordan just don’t come back?
Please don’t share this unflattering photo of traitorous rape enabler Jim Jordan trying to adjust the human mask he wears over his alien face #GymJordan #ImpeachmentHearings #ImpeachmentTaskForce pic.twitter.com/HmcnBZEXhW
— Tara Dublin, Fashion Cop (@taradublinrocks) November 20, 2019
I’m hoping Sondland eventually ropes Barr into this, too.
Someone check the other wingnut sites
Dailyfail
Ambassador to EU Gordon Sondland tells impeachment probe Donald Trump ORDERED him to work with Giuliani, says Pompeo, Mulvaney AND Pence all knew about linking a Biden probe to Ukraine aid - and has messages to prove it
re: #265 Backwoods_Sleuth
Nunes’ face says it all. He’d make a really shitty poker player.
Mrs. Jay and I were (for a change) watching the hearings live, and she brought up an interesting point ( unrelated to Ukrainian stuff): why have the Democrats ( and the media, for that matter) seem to have completely spaced the news of the settlement deal a Trump had to agree to with NYS, where he basically admitted guilt in a major charity fraud?
re: #268 makeitstop
Cow Boy is about to have a rough day.
What are the odds that Nunes and Jordan just don’t come back?
If they were smart, they’d come back and start asking questions to bury Trump even further. The writing is on the wall and they’re going to have to do a public Goldwater moment of explaining to the president that he lost the party
“End this sham,” says Steve Scalise 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣#Sondland🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣#QuidProQuo🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣#EverybodyKnew🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 https://t.co/25aVcrPBG3
— Richard Hine (@richardhine) November 20, 2019
Gymbag Jordan thinking he’s never seen a shower scene like this one.
re: #273 Dr Lizardo
Nunes’ face says it all. He’d make a really shitty poker player.
Nunez redoubled Jordan’s 7 No Trump bid ignorant of Schiff holding all four aces…
re: #277 Mescalero09
Gymbag Jordan thinking he’s never seen a shower scene like this one.
Yeah. It’s golden…..
Gordon Sondland is not testifying under a grant of immunity. He can still go to prison for this. It’s unusual for a co-conspirator to expose himself like this & it’s a strong circumstantial guarantee of honesty.
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) November 20, 2019
Nunes doubling down on the conspiracy theories…
re: #272 Stanley Sea
Someone check the other wingnut sites
Dailyfail
Freepers are disgruntled. Started out with the usual talking points, moved to discussing whether Sondland was a deep state, never Trump plant or would surprise us all with his defense of Trump (the latter a distinct minority view,) and are now just grousing about the Democrats and the unfairness of life.
Oh goodie, time to take Devin’s CTs out for walkies again.
dunes is going down the crazy road
The flop sweat is just covering Devin’s forehead.
Nunes now repeating hearsay. Dem “operatives got campaign dirt from Ukraine in 2016.”
NUNES ASKING SONDLAND TO PROVIDE HEARSAY TESTIMONY.— emptywheel (@emptywheel) November 20, 2019
Sondland has a look that says “Where’s he going with this?”
re: #282 makeitstop
Nunes doubling down on the conspiracy theories…
Uranium 1? Fast & Furious? Clinton Foundation? Release The Memo?
re: #290 Sir John Barron
Uranium 1? Fast & Furious? Clinton Foundation? Release The Memo?
He must have called the yam during the break to get some “genius” ideas.
re: #274 Jay C
Mrs. Jay and I were (for a change) watching the hearings live, and she brought up an interesting point ( unrelated to Ukrainian stuff): why have the Democrats ( and the media, for that matter) seem to have completely spaced the news of the settlement deal a Trump had to agree to with NYS, where he basically admitted guilt in a major charity fraud?
I think the Democrats are concentrating on establishing this *one* case since it then throws open the door (or perhaps more aptly breaks the dam) to look at everything else. Once Trump’s on-going corruption is openly established it can be reinforced by going to all the other cases of corruption that he has been convicted of, or is being investigated for.
re: #290 Sir John Barron
Uranium 1? Fast & Furious? Clinton Foundation? Release The Memo?
Ukrainian meanies saying mean things on Twitter.
that the president embraced this CT doesnt make it so
Nunes is… wow… *confirming* that Trump’s attitude toward Ukraine was all about his personal politcal interests, not his duty (and oath) to America.
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) November 20, 2019
So now it sounds like Nunes is making the case that Trump withheld the aide as a personal vendetta.
re: #293 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
I think the Democrats are concentrating on establishing this *one* case since it then throws open the door (or perhaps more aptly breaks the dam) to look at everything else. Once Trump’s on-going corruption is openly established it can be reinforced by going to all the other cases of corruption that he has been convicted of, or is being investigated for.
yup sondland just gave them the crowbar (imo)
re: #287 Backwoods_Sleuth
So….is Nunes saying the real corruption wasn’t Hunter Biden but….Ukraine’s helping Killary steal the election using the Steele Dossier and that that is the Corruption Donnie wanted to expose?
/
Sondland rolls his eyes.
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) November 20, 2019
Nunes is basically a redstate comment thread come to life at this point
This Tweet aged well:
No Collusion, No Obstruction, Complete and Total EXONERATION. KEEP AMERICA GREAT!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 24, 2019
Don’t break your arm patting yourself on the back, cow boy.
re: #297 Mike Lamb
So now it sounds like Nunes is making the case that Trump withheld the aide as a personal vendetta.
And I don’t think he even realizes what he’s doing! Moron.
Nunes is mad at Sondland. Snarks that “any logical person that wants to do 2+2=4 games” (a reference to an earlier Sondland comment) should understand why Trump distrusted Ukraine
— Andrew Prokop (@awprokop) November 20, 2019
re: #300 Backwoods_Sleuth
Ah, ha! Just proves this deep state operative who donated falsely to the Drump campaign is in deep to his eye balls in the secret conspiracy to…um…something
Now we have to see if things start spinning so hard that pieces start to break off.
TV off now — Listening to Republicans questioning witnesses or ranting about their CT is not conducive to maintaining my emotional equilibrium.
re: #305 Backwoods_Sleuth
Shame Nunes came to town today all ready to support Sondland against Dems smears and now he has to turnaround right quick and do the smearing himself.
Nunes repeating Foxnews theories. And pushing them as if they are true. And asking every witness if they are aware of it. pic.twitter.com/8VFFAA7NT4
— lsutigerzfan (@lsutigerzfan) November 20, 2019
Nunes is getting angry because Sondland isn’t cooperating with his effort to undermine the last 45 minutes of testimony.
And now, with music. pic.twitter.com/I9NFtGmnOn
— John Aravosis🇺🇸 (@aravosis) November 20, 2019
WH talking points throwing Giuliani under the bus.
Sondland talking points sent from the White House to allies this morning pic.twitter.com/5zls6zcigo
— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) November 20, 2019
re: #293 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
I think the Democrats are concentrating on establishing this *one* case since it then throws open the door (or perhaps more aptly breaks the dam) to look at everything else. Once Trump’s on-going corruption is openly established it can be reinforced by going to all the other cases of corruption that he has been convicted of, or is being investigated for.
Pelosi said earlier this week—or was it last week?—that the impeachment process would likely extend into next year. Of course, maybe that was a warning shot to McConnell.
Wow, Ken Starr making a strong case for obstruction and contempt of Congress charges on Fox right now. Cites Nixon. Says he’s changed his mind on these proceedings. “It’s over. There will be articles on impeachment.”
— Tom Watson (@tomwatson) November 20, 2019
Sondland like—why are you asking me whether they should get Hunter Biden in here—you are a moron, cow boy.
Pence’s chief-of-staff is accusing the Trump-appointed U.S. Ambassador to the E.U. of committing perjury. https://t.co/okwmAt1v77
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) November 20, 2019
re: #316 lawhawk
Wow, Ken Starr making a strong case for obstruction and contempt of Congress charges on Fox right now. Cites Nixon. Says he’s changed his mind on these proceedings. “It’s over. There will be articles on impeachment.”
Which will get voted down in the Senate.
But that is not the point.
The motto will be to the voters: “Dare to finish the job that the GOP refused to finish!”
Nunes earned love from his fat orange daddy once again.
re: #318 Targetpractice
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Holy shit.
I think we’re gonna see a whole lot of this today…please proceed, Team Treason.
Ok. Not “Fuck yourself” rather “GO Fuck yourself”
re: #319 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Which will get voted down in the Senate.
I dunno. Let’s give it a few days.
If Ken Fucking Starr is saying the jig is up, the jig very well may be up.
OMG, Nunes is relying on recycling every schlocky cliche the GOP has used to try to deflect guilt away from Trump and his gang?
Steele dossier?
Burisma?
Hunter Biden?
Democrats in 2016??
Trump the victim of “dirtying”?
Gordon Sondland realizing @DevinNunes it’s not just an idiot, but a traitor, too. #DevinNunesIsATraitor #DevinNunesIsAnIdiot pic.twitter.com/uffHcrjcgc
— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) November 20, 2019
re: #324 makeitstop
I dunno. Let’s give it a few days.
If Ken Fucking Starr is saying the jig is up, the jig very well may be up.
I would be shocked if the Senate were to actually remove Trump. Getting a couple of GOP Senators to vote for removal is a real possibility.
I’m now awaiting the tweet from DT telling us that he is the least cranky person in the universe. Totally not-cranky. All the time.
Castor seems like someone changed his batteries. They understand how dangerous Sondland is.
re: #324 makeitstop
I dunno. Let’s give it a few days.
If Ken Fucking Starr is saying the jig is up, the jig very well may be up.
A lot of Republican senators are going to have to face the voters knowing they ignored the evidence with Trump. It’s easy to be cynical but Trump could be ballot poison.
re: #78 Joe Bacon 🌹
No.
My suspicion is that there will be some Republican senators who will vote for conviction and removal. There may be an argument about whether perhaps the president should just be censured. But I can’t see all Republican senators feeling so invulnerable that they just blindly run down the rabbit hole.
Castor is flailing so badly that I almost feel sorry for him.
castor is working (hoping) on the basis that there is no ‘direct evidence’
that’s because they wont respond to the subpoenas to testify and for dox
re: #330 HappyWarrior
A lot of Republican senators are going to have to face the voters knowing they ignored the evidence with Trump. It’s easy to be cynical but Trump could be ballot poison.
The problem they have is the deplorable vote they need to win will view them as traitors if they vote to remove Trump. They have a tiger by the tail.
‘president pompeo’
everyone gets flustered someteims
re: #316 lawhawk
Wow, but I recall like it was just last week someone on Faux saying how Drump rage tweeting at a witness was impeachable and how that has died down.
too good to be true proves correct
Okay, Ken Starr did NOT say Trump is guilty of bribery. He said this was Chairman Schiff’s position. “This is [Schiff’s] position.” pic.twitter.com/Wib90WW53t
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) November 20, 2019
re: #334 NO SMOCKING GUN!
The problem they have is the deplorable vote they need to win will view them as traitors if they vote to remove Trump. They have a tiger by the tail.
Yep. It’s not going to be easy for them and I love it.
re: #330 HappyWarrior
A lot of Republican senators are going to have to face the voters knowing they ignored the evidence with Trump. It’s easy to be cynical but Trump could be ballot poison.
I’ve been saying for a while that self-preservation will eventually kick in.
Given the choice of defending a now-obvious criminal or saving their cushy gig, what do you think they’ll do?
Sondland says again that he “may have” spoken to Trump on September 6. But can’t say yes or no.
(Morrison and Taylor testified that Sondland claimed to have spoken to Trump then, and Trump had demanded Zelensky publicly announce the investigations.) pic.twitter.com/fqLQpxJUMq— Andrew Prokop (@awprokop) November 20, 2019
re: #274 Jay C
Mrs. Jay and I were (for a change) watching the hearings live, and she brought up an interesting point ( unrelated to Ukrainian stuff): why have the Democrats ( and the media, for that matter) seem to have completely spaced the news of the settlement deal a Trump had to agree to with NYS, where he basically admitted guilt in a major charity fraud?
They may not be interested in pursuing impeachment based on crimes committed before his election to the Presidency, especially those that were not involved in getting him the office. OTOH, it’s certainly possible that tax crimes could figure in to the impeachment, if they manage to acquire his tax records before the articles are voted on.
Personally, despite all the arguments to the contrary, I really think he may well resign, citing health issues, especially if there is a commitment to not prosecute him for his criminal activities. Question to lawyers: could President Pence pardon him for tax evasion so that he doesn’t have to pay up? Or would the pardon be limited to his not going to jail for tax fraud?
re: #333 DangerMan (misuser of the sarc tag)
castor is working (hoping) on the basis that there is no ‘direct evidence’
that’s because they wont respond to the subpoenas to testify and for dox
“Show us the specific spot where POTUS said specifically ‘announce hearings or no aid’ in those direct exact words in order or this whole set of hearings is a witch hunt inquisition to take away will of voters.”
gasp - the president lied to sen. johnson
re: #320 bratwurst
Nunes earned love from his fat orange daddy once again.
He’s seriously such a weak POS:
This may surprise people who only know Devin Nunes’s recent record, but in late 2015 Nunes told me during a long interview in his office that he was extremely concerned about the rise of conspiracy theorists in the Republican Party: pic.twitter.com/24k0np4dp7
— Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) November 20, 2019
re: #329 Mike Lamb
Castor seems like someone changed his batteries. They understand how dangerous Sondland is.
But they didn’t update the software, since he’s still coming across as a clueless doofus…
re: #327 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Just my opinion, of course, but I think Moscow Mitch is more-likely figuring out how to game the Senate trial so that he gets the desired acquittal with just enough leeway to make it appear reasonably “fair”… And/or give wavering GOPers the proper level of cover.
Trump, armed with quotes of Sondland’s testimony, says his own telephone affirmation to the ambassador of no quid pro quo “means it’s all over.”
“This is the final word from the president of the United States,” Trump said. “I want nothing.”— Steven Portnoy (@stevenportnoy) November 20, 2019
There are many reasons to disbelieve Senator Johnson.
Castor gets flustered when Sondland confirms that, yes, Pompeo made it clear the money would get released if the investigations are announced publicly by Ukraine.#ImpeachingHearings
— Michelangelo Signorile (@MSignorile) November 20, 2019
That was the second page he flips to. He says it’s his response to Sondland. First is below. (And I’m assuming the very talented still photographers in the White House press corps got better shots than my iPhone did.) POTUS did not answer any questions - he’s now on his way to TX pic.twitter.com/MzdHAw8aF4
— Hallie Jackson (@HallieJackson) November 20, 2019
Sondland just said he hasn’t had that many calls with Trump.
Didn’t someone the other day say Sondland bragged he could call Trump any time he wanted?
amb s: “i’ve had a lot of conversations with the presidnet about completely unrelated matters” (to ukraine)
but trump doesnt know who he is
re: #333 DangerMan (misuser of the sarc tag)
castor is working (hoping) on the basis that there is no ‘direct evidence’
that’s because they wont respond to the subpoenas to testify and for dox
Awaiting announcement from White House of four minor, but quickly controlled fires. Oval Office, secure files room (hard copies), server room, server backup room at undisclosed location.
Only minor material damage to some equipment and papers. Nothing to see here. Please move on.
//
re: #341 Hecuba’s daughter
They may not be interested in pursuing impeachment based on crimes committed before his election to the Presidency, especially those that were not involved in getting him the office. OTOH, it’s certainly possible that tax crimes could figure in to the impeachment, if they manage to acquire his tax records before the articles are voted on.
Personally, despite all the arguments to the contrary, I really think he may well resign, citing health issues, especially if there is a commitment to not prosecute him for his criminal activities. Question to lawyers: could President Pence pardon him for tax evasion so that he doesn’t have to pay up? Or would the pardon be limited to his not going to jail for tax fraud?
I don’t think Pence can protect him from New York State getting his ass in any case.
re: #349 Backwoods_Sleuth
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that handwritten note:
“I WANT NOTHING”
THREE TIMES IN ALL CAPS
re: #353 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
I don’t think Pence can protect him from New York State getting his ass in any case.
He cannot. And a pardon I think would be career suicide.
re: #331 steve_davis
My suspicion is that there will be some Republican senators who will vote for conviction and removal. There may be an argument about whether perhaps the president should just be censured. But I can’t see all Republican senators feeling so invulnerable that they just blindly run down the rabbit hole.
Some of them have their hands tied by Russian Kompromat, they will not budge. Others are truly ideologically blindered and the rest will just have to run with the herd.
re: #349 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Hard to believe he can breathe what with his neck hanging over his collar like that. Jeez.
I’m learning more about Ukraine in the 30’s. I bet Putin could get Trump to downplay the Holodomor and Moscow’s role in it.
re: #355 HappyWarrior
He cannot. And a pardon I think would be career suicide.
But Pence will not be the Republican nominee in 2020 anyway. There are plenty of jackals eager to run once Trump is deposed and Pence has no base outside the evangelicals.
re: #341 Hecuba’s daughter
Personally, despite all the arguments to the contrary, I really think he may well resign, citing health issues, especially if there is a commitment to not prosecute him for his criminal activities. Question to lawyers: could President Pence pardon him for tax evasion so that he doesn’t have to pay up? Or would the pardon be limited to his not going to jail for tax fraud?
Paying back taxes owed is independent of serving a sentence or paying a fine for avoiding same.
I don’t think the President has the power to exempt someone’s tax debt.
What I hate about my current job is when I get asked to babysit a line of business and technology I don’t have a good grasp on (= I don’t really understand what they’re doing here), I have to pay super close attention and I’m missing out on the good stuff. Blergh.
Yes! It’s called resignation. https://t.co/5OGMDUA2aJ
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) November 20, 2019
Lre: #359 Hecuba’s daughter
But Pence will not be the Republican nominee in 2020 anyway. There are plenty of jackals eager to run once Trump is deposed and Pence has no base outside the evangelicals.
I meant for the party. They’re already seen by many as blindly doing Trump’s will. A pardon would be even worse.
Listening to Dogs on the Pink Floyd album Animals. Very appropriate for GOP apparatchiks.
re: #328 A hollow voice says, Impeachmoot now!
I’m now awaiting the tweet from DT telling us that he is the least cranky person in the universe. Totally not-cranky. All the time.
Live, in person, instead of a tweet.
Trump rejected Sondland’s claim that Trump was in a cranky mood during their September 9 call. “I’m always in a good mood,” Trump said.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 20, 2019
re: #365 BeachDem
Live, in person, instead of a tweet.
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Could have fooled me that he’s always in a good mood.
re: #365 BeachDem
Live, in person, instead of a tweet.
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Trump plays CalvinBall all-day every-day and touches the opposite pole every few minutes. And he has the media constantly singing or humming the “I’m Sorry” song as they both-sider things to make him appear sane.
The gig is all the way up, suckers!
How did Sondland’s testimony go? Ask Devin Nunes’ face. #ImpeachmentHearing pic.twitter.com/tVhW7e81xr
— Karl Frisch (@KarlFrisch) November 20, 2019
re: #363 HappyWarrior
L
I meant for the party. They’re already seen by many as blindly doing Trump’s will. A pardon would be even worse.
Feature, not bug.
For a huge segment of the electorate…
re: #366 HappyWarrior
Could have fooled me that he’s always in a good mood.
and that he never lies and didnt lie to sondland on the phone
re: #369 Jay C
Feature, not bug.
For a huge segment of the electorate…
But the majority? Seems to me. The way they’re messaging this all sucks.
re: #364 BlueSpotinAL
Listening to Dogs on the Pink Floyd album Animals. Very appropriate for GOP apparatchiks.
‘And when you lose control, you’ll reap the harvest that you’ve own
And as the fear grows, the bad blood slows and turns to stone
And it’s too late to loose the weight you used to need to throw around
So have a good drown, as you go down alone
Dragged down by the stone.’
re: #371 HappyWarrior
But the majority? Seems to me. The way they’re messaging this all sucks.
I hope that’s true. For the country’s sake.
Castor regretting asking his “regular channel” question big time.
...because you’re not the ambassador to unkraine and the actual ambassador was kept out of the loop and unltimately axed.
that’s the official channel
… I WANNA BE SEDATED https://t.co/Wa3kss3R0k
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) November 20, 2019
re: #375 DangerMan (misuser of the sarc tag)
...because you’re not the ambassador to ukraine and the actual ambassador was kept out of the loop and unltimately axed.
that’s the official channel
there was a discussion about how that was “entirely unusual”
re: #365 BeachDem
Live, in person, instead of a tweet.
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It’s great that Trump told Sondland he didn’t want a quid pro quo after Trump had been informed of the whistleblower complaint. TOTAL EXONERATION!
re: #268 makeitstop
Cow Boy is about to have a rough day.
What are the odds that Nunes and Jordan just don’t come back?
re: #221 HappyWarrior
I would love to see an actual theological scholar show Rubio up for the empty suit he is as a man, senator, and theologian.
My Dad would have done him like Bane did to Batman. It would have been brutal.
ABANDON SHIP!
MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: Mike Pompeo Planning to Resign https://t.co/UJ6W7buKwD
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) November 20, 2019
Sondland has the same “you’re a moron” look when Castor rambles as he did with Nunes.
This, and not in 30 years.
My expectation is electoral backlash from Senate acquittal given the severity of this scheme & the complicity & duplicity of so many Admin officials. Voters will be frustrated at a political system incapable of upholding the Rule of Law. https://t.co/pmVWFsx9o4— Rachel “The Doc” Bitecofer 📈🔭🗿💪 (@RachelBitecofer) November 20, 2019
re: #375 DangerMan (misuser of the sarc tag)
...because you’re not the ambassador to unkraine and the actual ambassador was kept out of the loop and unltimately axed.
that’s the official channel
And Sondland just admitted that part sir his “remit” was to act as a sort of parallel diplomacy specifically aimed at Ukraine.
And never mind that there was no “regular” Ambassador there because Rudy and his cronies had agitated to get her fired.
re: #382 NO SMOCKING GUN!
This, and not in 30 years.
My expectation is electoral backlash from Senate acquittal given the severity of this scheme & the complicity & duplicity of so many Admin officials. Voters will be frustrated at a political system incapable of upholding the Rule of Law.
And that will be the central message of the DNC: “The GOP Senate punted. Now is the time, voters, to get out there and finish the job they refused to!”
Trump Brought Receipts:
wow pic.twitter.com/YUlBn22tAC— Benny (@bennyjohnson) November 20, 2019
The notes from Trump’s chopper “talk”
Wingnuts were not expecting this:
strong sense that they literally scrapped their plans and are improvising. Castor sifting through his notes for next subject, voice tentative. don’t want leave the bad impression of not using up their time.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) November 20, 2019
Spoiler altert: they won’t convict, and it IS.
Since it’s literally impossible to get more than 65 Dem senators until 2022, that means that above ALL else we have to elect a Dem as hopefully-the-country’s-final-monarch.— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) November 20, 2019
re: #387 b.d. (Where is Rudy?)
Wingnuts were not expecting this:
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What are they going to do with Fiona Hill tomorrow?
Is this Republican suggesting it’s treasonous of Sondland to have obeyed a subpeona?!?
Goldman just got Sondland to admit that: Perry, Pompeo, and Mulvaney would be key witnesses to add to this investigation.
key witnesses - blammo
i knew goldman would get to this
re: #391 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Smear her.
Yeah, they’re making “never-Trumper” signs to put on easels as we write.
re: #385 lawhawk
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The notes from Trump’s chopper “talk”
When did someone’s own notes constitute “receipts”?
re: #380 Targetpractice
ABANDON SHIP!
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So his excuse for resignation is that he wants to be a Senator? Mark Sanford did recover from his “hiking the Appalachian trail” controversy. But that did not involve a serious betrayal of public trust, just marital trust. Pompeo has been assiduously working to undermine American security ever since he became Secretary of State. Any competent opponent of his would raise these charges regularly during the campaign. Trump’s entire administration is part of Team Treason (except for those like Carson who are merely part of Team Corruption).
re: #393 lawhawk
Goldman just got Sondland to admit that: Perry, Pompeo, and Mulvaney would be key witnesses to add to this investigation.
gmta by 0:01!
When you take notes……
Via @jcartillier pic.twitter.com/UoDEq9Jylj
— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla) November 20, 2019
I hope he asks Sondland how many times he’s spoken to the yam.
Trump today again claims he doesn’t know his EU ambassador well, even though they repeatedly talked about Ukraine in recent months. “I don’t know him very well. I have not spoken to him much. This is not a man I know well. Seems like a nice guy, though, but I don’t know him well”
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) November 20, 2019
It was brilliant — accusing the administration of obstruction and having a plausible excuse for needing to change testimony.
— DosDogs (@Michael07079) November 20, 2019
re: #392 Chrysicat
Oh, NVM. That’s our counsel. Not sure we shouldn’t be trusting our Representatives instead, but he wasn’t calling him out for testifying like I thought; he was calling the others out for ducking.
If Trump’s out there screaming on the lawn it appears that he might be in trouble has gotten into his small mind and seriously grabbed his attention.
This Amb. Sondland pic is the greatest. via @washingtonpost pic.twitter.com/wzA8JbcSfB
— Christina Ginn (@NBChristinaGinn) November 20, 2019
“Black propaganda” being used against American citizens by the President of the United States. Lordy. Trump is so much worse than what I could ever imagine.
So this clearly had NOTHING TO DO with fighting “corruption.” This was a “black propaganda” operation by Trump against Biden and Ukraine, designed to benefit Trump and Russia. https://t.co/0YrX7Omth3
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) November 20, 2019
Trumpers try to rally around one sentence from Sondland: He “never heard those words” that aid was conditioned on Biden investigation.
He didn’t have to. Because Zelinsky heard those words directly from Trump:
“I would like you to do us a favor though.”https://t.co/16cYHXbZ5Q— Jed Shugerman (@jedshug) November 20, 2019
re: #408 Flying Squirrel Girl
“Black propaganda” being used against American citizens by the President of the United States. Lordy. Trump is so much worse than what I could ever imagine.
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Let’s be clear. Trump’s interests aren’t the United States.
re: #401 Mescalero09
He’s so out of the loop he can’t even spell Zelensky people. https://t.co/l8hypYp6g2
— Schooley (@Rschooley) November 20, 2019
That old adage, about keeping the powder dry, that Pelosi has been using on certain occasions… she’s was right all along, whether she knew it or not. It’s on.
Meme Makers? 🐮 pic.twitter.com/58YzGxjxBY
— Devin Nunes’ cow 🐮 (@DevinCow) November 20, 2019
re: #409 lawhawk
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We need a t-shirt with the message “I read the transcript. Impeach 45!” or maybe substitute Rashida’s more colorful terminology.
Breaking news 😂😂😂😂pic.twitter.com/boYOUxPGnz
— CCTV IDIOTS (@cctv_idiots) November 20, 2019
No, he just heard it from Trump’s personal Attorney, who Trump had demanded Sondland talk to. And then Trump himself demanded a “favor” from Zelensky when Zelensky asked for javelins. Case closed, indeed. But new cases opened against Pence and Pompeo!
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) November 20, 2019
re: #412 Nyet
That old adage, about keeping the powder dry, that Pelosi has been using on certain occasions… she’s was right all along, whether she knew it or not. It’s on.
I assumed that Nancy knows and knew things that most of us did not and trusted her judgement even when others were accusing her of abusing her power and position (Sarah Kendzior, I still love you but I cannot forgive you for giving up on Nancy)
re: #418 Egregious Philbin
Wet sack of worms.
this is not about the definition of qpq or what specific words or actions were or were not used
Hey, twitterati, has John Dean weighed in about this testimony?
(Dean had had an attack of conscience, Sondland appears to have been overcome by self-preservation.but the effect may very well be the same.)
re: #412 Nyet
That old adage, about keeping the powder dry, that Pelosi has been using on certain occasions… she’s was right all along, whether she knew it or not. It’s on.
I think she figured Trump would hang himself with his own rope. The other nice side effect is it’s coming out he lied to Mueller too.
re: #387 b.d. (Where is Rudy?)
Wingnuts were not expecting this:
Were you or were you not on the grassy knoll on the morning of November 22, 1963?
re: #426 HappyWarrior
I think she figured Trump would hang himself with his own rope. The other nice side effect is it’s coming out he lied to Mueller too.
He cannot open his mouth without contradicting himself, which he can get away with as long as it does not involve sworn testimony.
Much harder to spin or weasel out of that.
re: #51 lawhawk
Alex, I’d like Examples of Self Ownage, for $1000, please.
re: #425 A hollow voice says, Impeachmoot now!
Hey, twitterati, has John Dean weighed in about this testimony?
(Dean had had an attack of conscience, Sondland appears to have been overcome by self-preservation.but the effect may very well be the same.)
Earlier on CNN. He thinks it’s damning.
He’ll be back I’m sure once they go to break.
This is meme worthy:
That picture, from The Post’s Matt McClain, is really terrific. https://t.co/FH1xjnLe1w pic.twitter.com/h7jeT9OPoW
— Philip Bump (@pbump) November 20, 2019
I’ll go first:
I spent a million bucks and all I got was this lousy impeachment hearing.
re: #431 lawhawk
“Guess who’s driving the bus?”
there was no qpq but there was
Ugh—now cow boy will sling bovine excrement for several minutes.
And Sondland reprises his head nod/please make this moron stop face.
“It could have went?” Geez, Nunes, are you rattled r something?
GOP now has 33 minutes to spew bulkshit.
Nunes has the bulkshit down pat, because he’s not getting to an actual question.
Oh, so now Nunes is claiming Schiff engaged in obstruction of justice by not releasing evidence?
That’s bulkshit because that’s not how investigations work.
Schiff must love adding the extra time. The GOP members get to flail around more and the Democrats get to ask very good questions to clarify things and open up other avenues to be looked at.
And it becomes clearer and clearer that the White House, State Department, and Justice Department are all stonewalling and obstructing.
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The Pandemic Cost 7 Million Lives, but Talks to Prevent a Repeat Stall In late 2021, as the world reeled from the arrival of the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus, representatives of almost 200 countries met - some online, some in-person in Geneva - hoping to forestall a future worldwide ... Cheechako
Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ... Cheechako
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