“He had to announce the investigations. He didn’t actually have to do them, as I understood it,” Sondland said. “I never heard, Mr. Goldman, anyone say that the investigations had to start or had to be completed,” Sondland said. “The only thing I heard from Mr. Giuliani or otherwise was that they had to be announced in some form and that form kept changing.” https://www.mediaite.com/tv/sondlan...nvestigations-didnt-actually-have-to-do-them/
It appears Sondland has some selective memory issues, from a mere few months ago, according to his own words. The thought that Sondland may have been coached by Democrats has crossed my mind. A skilled cross examination of Sondland should put some heat back on the Democrats. Maybe a lot of heat. No matter how hard the media tries to use an “Assumptive Close”, where whatever event or testimony is portrayed in a convincing matter through tone, body language, or speaking pace that a definitive conclusion can now be reached, in the end this does not show valid cause for impeachment. Ukraine is known to be corrupt and Biden has been doing a lot of business with them. There was a change in political leadership recently in Ukraine and it would be reasonable to ascertain whether the new regime is a hidden puppet of Putin or not. If Ukraine’s leadership is now a hidden puppet of Russia, Putin may decide to let the status quo remain while the US sends hundreds of billions of dollars their way. The impeachment proceedings are a sham, no matter how high the quality of acting and Academy worthy performances by the media. It is also reasonable to consider Ukrainian Sondland has certain interests he is trying to protect. Too bad the US is not among those interests.
lol you fools. Sondland believes that he is throwing Trump a lifeline by not explicitly tying aid as predicate to the OO meeting.
Hmm. Making him survive the electoral in kind donation request but sweeping the bribery charge under the rug...
If you have to reference the mkts response (or lack thereof) to Sondland’s testimony then you have already lost.