President Trump’s ambassador to the EU suddenly changed his story regarding whether there was a ‘quid pro quo’ in his dealings with Ukraine. As The Daily Mail reports:
The U.S. ambassador to the European Union told lawmakers that the Trump administration pushed to make a Ukrainian investigation of the Bidens a condition for getting security aid and a White House meeting – and assessed that it ‘doesn’t sound good.’
He also provided a three-page revision to his earlier testimony where he said he told the Ukrainians they would not get millions of needed U.S. security aid until the country provided a ‘public anticorruption statement’ that is key to the Democratic impeachment inquiry. He said he had ‘refreshed my recollection.’
Gordon Sondland, the wealthy hotelier who donated $1 million to Donald Trump’s inauguration, told lawmakers behind closed doors that he considered such an arrangement was ‘problematic.’…
Sondland said in the absence of ‘any credible explanation for the suspension of aid, I presumed that the aid suspension had become linked to the proposed anti-corruption statement.’
The entire episode is strange. The real question is what exactly caused Sondland to change his story so quickly? Is it possible that there could be a deep state agenda a play here? Could Sondland himself now be compromised via blackmail?
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Why is the ambassador having a re-think? Have the dims offered to put money into a Swiss bank account for him?
Well, he needs to RE-refresh his recollection. The funds were already BEING withheld before President Trump even HAD the phone call with the Ukrainian president.
You’re right, but they were being withheld at the direction of the President. They were released by Congress before that, and Trump directly interceded.
Presumptions are not facts. Nor are they proof of anything.
The level of corruption and the extent these PROFESSIONAL politicians are willing to go to continues to amaze me. DOes this fellow REALLY think anyone with ANY common sense is going to buy into this made-up version of why he has changed his story??? Whatever this guy thinks he is protecting, he does so at the expense of his own reputation, that of the people who raised him and those who live with him and see him as a role nodle . . . What a shame!!! The guy would have been better off shooting himself in the head than giving into the DEMONRAT thugs who have obviously done a job on this man. It is way these mobsters continue to do these sort of things . . .
The demonRATS are a BUNCH of A– holes that THINK they’re so much SMARTER then anyone else – we see right through ’em.
The best Christmas present America could receive would be if God recalled some of these so called Christians to task as in their judgement. Start with Siri’s and work His way thru the ones who have lied and stolen from hardworking tax payers.
He belongs to the old club and they got to him!
What are we going to do about these lying criminals who will never be charged?
I’m praying because God never loss, God is not losing and God will never loose.
The ugly mess created by the democrats is very interesting. President Trump along with the Republican will be marching to a big victory in 2020 thanks to the democrats and theirs stupid fake investigations. They wil also drag the dishonet media down with them. What a happy ending
Honest question, I’m not trying to troll you; how did the Dems create this? The President threatened to withhold aid to Ukraine (and actually *did*) unless the Ukrainian President himself went on TV to announce investigations into an American citizen. All of the transcripts that have come out from the Congressional testimony have corroborated that; Ukraine itself has said they planned to comply and were working with CNN to set a date for the interview/announcement. And President Trump also told the whole world, in front of the Press Corps on the White House lawn, that he wanted Ukraine to get involved, and also thought the same of China.
Talk about corruption! Try looking at Congress giving themselves pay raises that are outlandish! These people need to give it back to the people they robbed! Everyone in both parties should be ashamed of themselves. They also voted themselves to hugh retirement packages! They don’t need special insurances, they need Medicare like the rest of us! This should stop! Please President Trump end This NOW! They are thieves all of them! No more pay raises forever!! STOP THIS MADNESS,
If he did that to a Clinton his suicide would have have been yesterday.
So Trump fucked up big time and then told everyone to lie initially, so that he could then claim that anything they ever said or would was suspect.
Paul Nielsen says “you cannot have your own facts” as an answer to Burke (who did offer facts), and then Nielsen offers no facts at all.
Can Trump withhold military foreign aid when a recipient country isn’t taking his unsupported request to investigate. I think a lot of people think that is a “high misdemeanor”.
What did he confirm? The whistle blower’s second/third hand water cooler chat by hold -over Obama lackeys supported by leaks to the media, possibly by the whistle blower, and a Soros funded organization. Not one so-called witness has testified that he/she was told directly by President Trump that the aid money was to be held up until Zelensky agreed to investigate Biden’s son connection with Burmisa.
As Biden’s son needs to be investigated, we already know Biden said that they have six hours to fire the investigator that was a good man and a great investigator, but because Biden stated that there billion dollar package was going up in smokes if he was not fired before he left the airport,,,, the dumb as Biden had the balls to say that on live tv, what a dumb as.
I wouldn’t put much stock in a guy that changes his story, sounds like he got scared off or bought off.
The Administration itself has changed its story many times, on several things, including this. From “it never happened” to “it happened but there was no quid pro quo” to “there was quid pro quo but we do that all the time” to “so what? Quid pro quo isn’t impeachable.”
He remembers more details because too many people he talked to, or texted, or otherwise communicated with contradicted him. Numbers count; in a trial, if x number of witnesses say something, and 1 disagrees, the tendency is to accept x numbers’ account. If the 1 is a defendant, that means he is convicted. So, Sondland had to straighten the record.
The President asked for nothing illegal-unless he’s asking Ukraine to fabricate evidence. Otherwise-he’s entitled.
It’s very strange how a Dem can break the law and if someone tries to investigate they treat the accuser as the criminal, totally ignoring the guilty party.
Clinton-Hit-List has long arms . . . .
Asking “What caused Sondland to change his story so quickly?” is pretty easily answered: He knew he was caught dead to rights before, and he’s terrified because he’s in deep, deep trouble, and therefore now he’s telling the truth. Ukraine isn’t even in the EU – this guy should have had *no part* in Ukraine policy.
His account matches the accounts of everyone else who’s testified, as well as the initial whistleblower’s account, as well as the memo of the call released by the White House (it’s not a “transcript,” despite what the Administration is saying).
And further, those account match what the President himself said to the press several weeks ago – that he wants Ukraine to investigate, and also wants China to do the same. The President asked for something illegal on national television. At this point, it doesn’t even matter if the whistleblower had an agenda – the President himself has confirmed everything he was accused of.
Burke, Your comment is wholly misleading and you must know it. There is plenty of evidence and testimony contra. Much of it not (yet?) before the House witch hunt committee of course. You can have your own opinion but not your own facts. Others with time on their hands can go point by point. This guy’s motivation will eventually surface I believe. Meanwhile the DOJ investigation rolls along toward a day of reckoning.
I’m not being misleading at all. Everything I said is accurate and verifiable – actually, veriFIED. These aren’t my “own facts.” Yes, it’s a supposition that he was lying initially, but it’s odd that a) He shouldn’t have had anything to do with Ukraine to begin with, b) He initially said he knew nothing about the deal, and c) After Taylor, one of his associates, was revealed to have said the two spoke directly and repeatedly about the quid pro quo, and *in those terms*, Sondland suddenly “refreshes” his memory and DOES distinctly remember a quid pro quo.
Also, not my own facts that all the testimony we’ve heard corroborates the whistleblower’s statement. And not my own facts that the President said to the assembled press corps that both Ukraine and China should investigate the Bidens.
You have your head in the sand, or more likely, you’re basically in a cult. Don’t believe your eyes or ears. (Trump himself said that last year – “What you’re seeing and what you’re reading is NOT what’s happening.” Orwell would blush.)
What evidence and testimony are you talking about? Your sentence kinda trailed off and I’m not sure what you mean.
Nothing personal, but you’re being sold a bill of goods.
Not as bad as biden saying I want that investigator fired, or your billion dollar package is going up in smokes if the investigator is not fired,,,,,and he was fired.
When Biden said that, it was at the direction of the US Gov’t, and it was backed up by every major leader in the world. The prosecutor in question was openly corrupt.
He didn’t say it to personally benefit himself, or to obtain information on a domestic political opponent, or to ask Ukraine to monitor or create dirt on an American citizen. Like Trump did. And when Biden made those demands, it was to the benefit of the US and the rest of the world; Trump doing so was directly opposed by his own military, IC, and the rest of the world.
President Trump is corrupt.
Wonder how much he sold out for, and who paid him.
It isn’t likely that he sold out for money but was blackmailed for some indiscretion.
Probably George Soros! That is where most of the corrupt money comes from, the only problem with taking money that comes from Soros is your selling your soul to the devil.