Sondland Testified Trump Ukraine Pressure Was Quid Pro Quo, His Lawyer Tells WSJ

[theHawk]

“Trump will definitely be impeached and likely removed from office” if you watch MSNBC.

“The democrats are scrabbling to hold the impeachment narrative together, and Pelosi can’t find the votes from her own party to impeach. Trump could win a second term with a landslide of electoral votes” If you watch Fox News.

Denizen clearly has Rachel Maddow’s dick in his mouth, and he is also fondling the balls.

These morons are just too stupid to realize the MSM needs this impeachment fantasy to stretch out until next November, because the Dems have absolutely nothing when it comes to domestic and foreign policy. President Trump has knocked it out of the park by not getting us into any more wars, and lowest unemployment rates in decades.

 

[Denizen]

Sondland is a Donald Trump stooge who has been compelled to tell the truth under oath.

The truth is being excavated from the system as mountains of evidence emerge that Donald Trump was using the withholding of foreign aid to Ukraine as pressure to compel Ukraine to open an investigation into Biden and into 2016 election interference by Ukrainians.

Donald Trump is becoming more isolated every day as the Democrats are discovering more information with each subpoenaed witness. In fact, the Democrats are demonstrating how to perm investigations to the Republicans who got their anuses booted three times by Hillary Clinton and others when they held the House and Republican clowns were the interrogators in inquiries.

Impeachment of Donald Trump is becoming more certain every day with each new fact and revelation.

The GOP will be slaughtered in the elections for their incompetence and complicity with Trump's crimes.

WSJ: Sondland told the House that Trump's Ukraine pressure was a quid pro quo

WSJ: Sondland told the House that Trump's Ukraine pressure was a quid pro quo
BY RACHEL FRAZIN - 10/26/19 09:12 PM EDT 2,835

A lawyer for the U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland told The Wall Street Journal that Sondland told impeachment committee members that President Trump's dealings with Ukraine amounted to a quid pro quo.

Sondland's lawyer, Robert Luskin, told the news outlet that Sondland revealed to House committees he thought that a meeting between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky would only take place if the country agreed to investigate corruption allegations about his political rivals.

Last month, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) launched an impeachment inquiry into Trump's dealings with the Ukraine following a whistleblower complaint about a July 25 call with Zelensky.

When a lawmaker asked Sondland if he believed this arrangement was a quid pro quo, Sondland said he believed so, but warned that he was not a lawyer, Luskin told the newspaper.

The Journal's report follows text messages between Sondland and U.S. diplomat Bill Taylor that came out during the impeachment inquiry.

In the exchange, Taylor said "it's crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign."
"The president has been crystal clear no quid pro quo's of any kind," Sondland responded.

Taylor's subsequent testimony resulted in scrutiny on Sondland and some lawmakers have called for him to return and answer more questions.

Taylor testimony was similar. He told the House investigators that a meeting between Trump and Zelensky as well as security assistance for Ukraine was conditioned on the country's pursuit of investigations into whether Kiev interfered in the 2016 election and into unfounded corruption allegations against the Bidens.

Taylor also relayed that Sondland told a Ukrainian representative "the security assistance money would not come until President Zelensky committed to pursue the Burisma investigation.”

Luskin told The Journal that Sondland would probably return if he were asked to do so.
Trump has denied that there was a quid pro quo and blasted the impeachment inquiry as a "witch hunt."
However, a rough transcript of the July call released by the White House reveals that the president did ask Zelensky to look into the former vice president. Trump has also publicly asked Ukraine and China to investigate the democratic presidential candidate. ...

So the elections are already over. When will the new senators arrive?

The spaces formerly occupied by repugnant GOP senators are still being sanitized with industrial strength bio-hazard cleansers.

The GOP stench may take longer to clear.

 

[The Purge]

Trump must feel betrayed by Sondland. How can Republicans continue to support Trump?

Easy answer.....

Trump Administration Accomplishments

• Almost 4 million jobs created since election.
• More Americans are now employed than ever recorded before in our history.
• We have created more than 400,000 manufacturing jobs since my election.
• Manufacturing jobs growing at the fastest rate in more than THREE DECADES.
• Economic growth last quarter hit 4.2 percent.
• New unemployment claims recently hit a 49-year low.
• Median household income has hit highest level ever recorded.
• African-American unemployment has recently achieved the lowest rate ever recorded.
• Hispanic-American unemployment is at the lowest rate ever recorded.
• Asian-American unemployment recently achieved the lowest rate ever recorded.
• Women’s unemployment recently reached the lowest rate in 65 years.
• Youth unemployment has recently hit the lowest rate in nearly half a century.
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• Under my Administration, veterans’ unemployment recently reached its lowest rate in nearly 20 years.
• Almost 3.9 million Americans have been lifted off food stamps since the election.
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• As a result of our tax bill, small businesses will have the lowest top marginal tax rate in more than 80 years.
• Helped win U.S. bid for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
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• Net exports are on track to increase by $59 billion this year.
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• We have begun BUILDING THE WALL. Republicans want STRONG BORDERS and NO CRIME. Democrats want OPEN BORDERS which equals MASSIVE CRIME.

 

[Lakhota]

“Trump will definitely be impeached and likely removed from office” if you watch MSNBC.

“The democrats are scrabbling to hold the impeachment narrative together, and Pelosi can’t find the votes from her own party to impeach. Trump could win a second term with a landslide of electoral votes” If you watch Fox News.

Denizen clearly has Rachel Maddow’s dick in his mouth, and he is also fondling the balls.

These morons are just too stupid to realize the MSM needs this impeachment fantasy to stretch out until next November, because the Dems have absolutely nothing when it comes to domestic and foreign policy. President Trump has knocked it out of the park by not getting us into any more wars, and lowest unemployment rates in decades.

Funny. While he loots the treasury and explodes the national debt.

 

[Erinwltr]

“Trump will definitely be impeached and likely removed from office” if you watch MSNBC.

“The democrats are scrabbling to hold the impeachment narrative together, and Pelosi can’t find the votes from her own party to impeach. Trump could win a second term with a landslide of electoral votes” If you watch Fox News.

Denizen clearly has Rachel Maddow’s dick in his mouth, and he is also fondling the balls.

These morons are just too stupid to realize the MSM needs this impeachment fantasy to stretch out until next November, because the Dems have absolutely nothing when it comes to domestic and foreign policy. President Trump has knocked it out of the park by not getting us into any more wars, and lowest unemployment rates in decades.

Funny. While he loots the treasury and explodes the national debt.

And what government does all this benefit?

 

[BULLDOG]

Ambassador to the E.U. Gordon Sondland believed the White House meeting sought by Ukraine President Zelensky depended on an agreement to open a Biden probe, according to his attorney.

U.S. ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland told House lawmakers last week that President Donald Trump’s pressure on Ukraine to open an investigation into Joe Biden’s son before a White House meeting amounted to a quid pro quo, his lawyer told The Wall Street Journal.

Sondland believed Ukraine’s agreement to investigate Biden, his son and an unfounded conspiracy theory that Democrats manipulated the 2016 election was a condition for a sought-after White House meeting with Trump by Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, according to the Journal.

Asked by a House committee lawmaker as part of the ongoing impeachment probe if the arrangement was a quid pro quo, Sondland responded that he wasn’t a lawyer but believed the answer was yes, his attorney Robert Luskin told the newspaper.

Sondland would likely return for further questioning if asked, Luskin told the Journal.

Sondland Testified Trump Ukraine Pressure Was Quid Pro Quo, His Lawyer Tells WSJ

Sondland Told House Panels Trump’s Ukraine Pressure Was Quid Pro Quo - WSJ

More bad news for Trump!

Hey dum-dum, it’s perfectly legal for the President to pressure a foreign power if he wants to. Who cares if he pressured Ukraine to investigate past corruption? Americans don’t have an issue with it, and it isn’t illegal in the slightest.

What we do have a problem with, is a President or Vice President using his power to bribe foreign officials in order to protect his own son from criminal charges.

Yes it is illegal, even if you don't want it to be.

And yet no libtard making that claim can back it up by citing actual federal law.

Just like the whole “collusion” hoax.

1. Campaign finance laws.
2. Bribery
3. Extortion.
4 Obstruction of justice.

 

[Erinwltr]

Ambassador to the E.U. Gordon Sondland believed the White House meeting sought by Ukraine President Zelensky depended on an agreement to open a Biden probe, according to his attorney.

U.S. ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland told House lawmakers last week that President Donald Trump’s pressure on Ukraine to open an investigation into Joe Biden’s son before a White House meeting amounted to a quid pro quo, his lawyer told The Wall Street Journal.

Sondland believed Ukraine’s agreement to investigate Biden, his son and an unfounded conspiracy theory that Democrats manipulated the 2016 election was a condition for a sought-after White House meeting with Trump by Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, according to the Journal.

Asked by a House committee lawmaker as part of the ongoing impeachment probe if the arrangement was a quid pro quo, Sondland responded that he wasn’t a lawyer but believed the answer was yes, his attorney Robert Luskin told the newspaper.

Sondland would likely return for further questioning if asked, Luskin told the Journal.

Sondland Testified Trump Ukraine Pressure Was Quid Pro Quo, His Lawyer Tells WSJ

Sondland Told House Panels Trump’s Ukraine Pressure Was Quid Pro Quo - WSJ

More bad news for Trump!

Hey dum-dum, it’s perfectly legal for the President to pressure a foreign power if he wants to. Who cares if he pressured Ukraine to investigate past corruption? Americans don’t have an issue with it, and it isn’t illegal in the slightest.

What we do have a problem with, is a President or Vice President using his power to bribe foreign officials in order to protect his own son from criminal charges.

Yes it is illegal, even if you don't want it to be.

And yet no libtard making that claim can back it up by citing actual federal law.

Just like the whole “collusion” hoax.

1. Campaign finance laws.
2. Bribery
3. Extortion.
4 Obstruction of justice.

I'm into a bottle of whisky. Is this when I can use the word "twattery?" I mean really. I thought hawk had more on the ball than this Hannity BS.

 

[BULLDOG]

Ambassador to the E.U. Gordon Sondland believed the White House meeting sought by Ukraine President Zelensky depended on an agreement to open a Biden probe, according to his attorney.

U.S. ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland told House lawmakers last week that President Donald Trump’s pressure on Ukraine to open an investigation into Joe Biden’s son before a White House meeting amounted to a quid pro quo, his lawyer told The Wall Street Journal.

Sondland believed Ukraine’s agreement to investigate Biden, his son and an unfounded conspiracy theory that Democrats manipulated the 2016 election was a condition for a sought-after White House meeting with Trump by Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, according to the Journal.

Asked by a House committee lawmaker as part of the ongoing impeachment probe if the arrangement was a quid pro quo, Sondland responded that he wasn’t a lawyer but believed the answer was yes, his attorney Robert Luskin told the newspaper.

Sondland would likely return for further questioning if asked, Luskin told the Journal.

Sondland Testified Trump Ukraine Pressure Was Quid Pro Quo, His Lawyer Tells WSJ

Sondland Told House Panels Trump’s Ukraine Pressure Was Quid Pro Quo - WSJ

More bad news for Trump!

Hey dum-dum, it’s perfectly legal for the President to pressure a foreign power if he wants to. Who cares if he pressured Ukraine to investigate past corruption? Americans don’t have an issue with it, and it isn’t illegal in the slightest.

What we do have a problem with, is a President or Vice President using his power to bribe foreign officials in order to protect his own son from criminal charges.

Yes it is illegal, even if you don't want it to be.

And yet no libtard making that claim can back it up by citing actual federal law.

Just like the whole “collusion” hoax.

1. Campaign finance laws.
2. Bribery
3. Extortion.
4 Obstruction of justice.

I'm into a bottle of whisky. Is this when I can use the word "twattery?" I mean really. I thought hawk had more on the ball than this Hannity BS.

Don't bother Hawk isn't drunk. He's just stupid.

 

[Jitss617]

Ambassador to the E.U. Gordon Sondland believed the White House meeting sought by Ukraine President Zelensky depended on an agreement to open a Biden probe, according to his attorney.

U.S. ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland told House lawmakers last week that President Donald Trump’s pressure on Ukraine to open an investigation into Joe Biden’s son before a White House meeting amounted to a quid pro quo, his lawyer told The Wall Street Journal.

Sondland believed Ukraine’s agreement to investigate Biden, his son and an unfounded conspiracy theory that Democrats manipulated the 2016 election was a condition for a sought-after White House meeting with Trump by Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, according to the Journal.

Asked by a House committee lawmaker as part of the ongoing impeachment probe if the arrangement was a quid pro quo, Sondland responded that he wasn’t a lawyer but believed the answer was yes, his attorney Robert Luskin told the newspaper.

Sondland would likely return for further questioning if asked, Luskin told the Journal.

Sondland Testified Trump Ukraine Pressure Was Quid Pro Quo, His Lawyer Tells WSJ

Sondland Told House Panels Trump’s Ukraine Pressure Was Quid Pro Quo - WSJ

More bad news for Trump!

Poor guy

 

[Jantje_Smit]

Ambassador to the E.U. Gordon Sondland believed..

Somehow I don't think faith based 'evidence' is going to accomplish the #resistance dream of impeaching individual 1...

Sad!

 

[Erinwltr]

Ambassador to the E.U. Gordon Sondland believed the White House meeting sought by Ukraine President Zelensky depended on an agreement to open a Biden probe, according to his attorney.

U.S. ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland told House lawmakers last week that President Donald Trump’s pressure on Ukraine to open an investigation into Joe Biden’s son before a White House meeting amounted to a quid pro quo, his lawyer told The Wall Street Journal.

Sondland believed Ukraine’s agreement to investigate Biden, his son and an unfounded conspiracy theory that Democrats manipulated the 2016 election was a condition for a sought-after White House meeting with Trump by Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, according to the Journal.

Asked by a House committee lawmaker as part of the ongoing impeachment probe if the arrangement was a quid pro quo, Sondland responded that he wasn’t a lawyer but believed the answer was yes, his attorney Robert Luskin told the newspaper.

Sondland would likely return for further questioning if asked, Luskin told the Journal.

Sondland Testified Trump Ukraine Pressure Was Quid Pro Quo, His Lawyer Tells WSJ

Sondland Told House Panels Trump’s Ukraine Pressure Was Quid Pro Quo - WSJ

More bad news for Trump!

Poor guy

Oh my goodness. Who got you up this morning, wiped your snotty nose and filthy ass? Just wonderin'.

 

[Erinwltr]

Ambassador to the E.U. Gordon Sondland believed..

Somehow I don't think faith based 'evidence' is going to accomplish the #resistance dream of impeaching individual 1...

Sad!

WTH?

 

[there4eyeM]

With the bar for impeachment set so low in the '90s, the Presidency is ridiculously vulnerable.

 

[Jitss617]

Ambassador to the E.U. Gordon Sondland believed the White House meeting sought by Ukraine President Zelensky depended on an agreement to open a Biden probe, according to his attorney.

U.S. ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland told House lawmakers last week that President Donald Trump’s pressure on Ukraine to open an investigation into Joe Biden’s son before a White House meeting amounted to a quid pro quo, his lawyer told The Wall Street Journal.

Sondland believed Ukraine’s agreement to investigate Biden, his son and an unfounded conspiracy theory that Democrats manipulated the 2016 election was a condition for a sought-after White House meeting with Trump by Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, according to the Journal.

Asked by a House committee lawmaker as part of the ongoing impeachment probe if the arrangement was a quid pro quo, Sondland responded that he wasn’t a lawyer but believed the answer was yes, his attorney Robert Luskin told the newspaper.

Sondland would likely return for further questioning if asked, Luskin told the Journal.

Sondland Testified Trump Ukraine Pressure Was Quid Pro Quo, His Lawyer Tells WSJ

Sondland Told House Panels Trump’s Ukraine Pressure Was Quid Pro Quo - WSJ

More bad news for Trump!

Poor guy

Oh my goodness. Who got you up this morning, wiped your snotty nose and filthy ass? Just wonderin'.

Trump did,, I have a job lol

 

[Erinwltr]

Ambassador to the E.U. Gordon Sondland believed the White House meeting sought by Ukraine President Zelensky depended on an agreement to open a Biden probe, according to his attorney.

U.S. ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland told House lawmakers last week that President Donald Trump’s pressure on Ukraine to open an investigation into Joe Biden’s son before a White House meeting amounted to a quid pro quo, his lawyer told The Wall Street Journal.

Sondland believed Ukraine’s agreement to investigate Biden, his son and an unfounded conspiracy theory that Democrats manipulated the 2016 election was a condition for a sought-after White House meeting with Trump by Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, according to the Journal.

Asked by a House committee lawmaker as part of the ongoing impeachment probe if the arrangement was a quid pro quo, Sondland responded that he wasn’t a lawyer but believed the answer was yes, his attorney Robert Luskin told the newspaper.

Sondland would likely return for further questioning if asked, Luskin told the Journal.

Sondland Testified Trump Ukraine Pressure Was Quid Pro Quo, His Lawyer Tells WSJ

Sondland Told House Panels Trump’s Ukraine Pressure Was Quid Pro Quo - WSJ

More bad news for Trump!

Poor guy

Oh my goodness. Who got you up this morning, wiped your snotty nose and filthy ass? Just wonderin'.

Trump did,, I have a job lol

That's really funny. It took DJT to get you up. Wiped your Nose and Ass. And by the way, we all have a job. Here's a fucking gold star for you, jitler.

 

[Olde Europe]

I wonder why Sondland's lawyer is making this public at this time?

Good question. My reading suggests that Sondland was rather ambiguous in his testimony, tending towards denying there was a quid pro quo. Thereafter Taylor testified in a way that was more compelling, involved Sondland in the quid pro quo, and pretty much established the quid pro quo as a fact. That resulted in calls for Sondland to be called in for additional questioning. That said, what his lawyer is probably doing is reinterpreting Sondland's previous testimony to be more in line with Taylor's. What other way is there for the lawyer to spare, if at all possible, Sondland a charge of perjury, or obstruction of Congress? "What I meant was..."

 

[Erinwltr]

I wonder why Sondland's lawyer is making this public at this time?

Good question. My reading suggests that Sondland was rather ambiguous in his testimony, tending towards denying there was a quid pro quo. Thereafter Taylor testified in a way that was more compelling, involved Sondland in the quid pro quo, and pretty much established the quid pro quo as a fact. That resulted in calls for Sondland to be called in for additional questioning. That said, what his lawyer is probably doing is reinterpreting Sondland's previous testimony to be more in line with Taylor's. What other way is there for the lawyer to spare, if at all possible, Sondland a charge of perjury, or obstruction of Congress? "What I meant was..."

Interesting. Taylor and Sondland aside, do you think the House now has first hand testimony?

 

[Lakhota]

I wonder why Sondland's lawyer is making this public at this time?

Good question. My reading suggests that Sondland was rather ambiguous in his testimony, tending towards denying there was a quid pro quo. Thereafter Taylor testified in a way that was more compelling, involved Sondland in the quid pro quo, and pretty much established the quid pro quo as a fact. That resulted in calls for Sondland to be called in for additional questioning. That said, what his lawyer is probably doing is reinterpreting Sondland's previous testimony to be more in line with Taylor's. What other way is there for the lawyer to spare, if at all possible, Sondland a charge of perjury, or obstruction of Congress? "What I meant was..."

Well said. Thank you.

 

[007]

The GOP will be slaughtered in the elections for their incompetence and complicity with Trump's crimes.

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[Jitss617]

I wonder why Sondland's lawyer is making this public at this time?

Good question. My reading suggests that Sondland was rather ambiguous in his testimony, tending towards denying there was a quid pro quo. Thereafter Taylor testified in a way that was more compelling, involved Sondland in the quid pro quo, and pretty much established the quid pro quo as a fact. That resulted in calls for Sondland to be called in for additional questioning. That said, what his lawyer is probably doing is reinterpreting Sondland's previous testimony to be more in line with Taylor's. What other way is there for the lawyer to spare, if at all possible, Sondland a charge of perjury, or obstruction of Congress? "What I meant was..."

I almost feel bad for you people lol but then I read this haha