Pierce: Gordon Sondland Is the First Guy Who Thinks Serving Donald Trump Doesn't Mean Going to Jail

[mcar]

Gordon Sondland Is the First Guy Who Thinks Serving Donald Trump Doesn't Mean Going to Jail for Him

They'll soon start dropping like flies. Even Giuliani, eventually, will opt for self-preservation and not dying in prison.

BY CHARLES P. PIERCE
NOV 5, 2019

All of our memories need refreshing from time to time. However, if you're Gordon Sondland, the former U.S. Envoy For Threadbare Alibis, and a small brigade of your colleagues have come before the Congressto say that your previous testimony was a big bag of bullshit, your memory needs about a month at a spa lest you end up cooling your heels in the federal pokey. And, judging by his most recent deposition, released today by the House committees conducting the impeachment inquiry, ol' Gordon's memory is so refreshed it ought to be climbing Everest any day now.

Quid.

“I said that resumption of the U.S. aid would likely not occur...

Pro.

..until Ukraine provided...

Quo.

..the public anticorruption statement that we had been discussing for many weeks.”

Quid pro quo. A Latin phrase that can be translated as, "Game, set, match."

Making the case that all of them are criminals, that they all were involved in an international conspiracy to bribe and/or extort concessions from the government of Ukraine, including that government’s help in ratfcking the 2020 election, in exchange for military aid that Ukraine desperately needs to help fend off the greedy regime in Moscow, of which this administration is a fairly prominent client state, just got easier. Crooks, all of them, El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago and Rudy Giuliani in particular. Sondland, and former envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker, whose testimony also was made public on Tuesday, have laid the rest of the bricks in the wall that now circumscribes everything the president* will do.

He's caught. He knows he's caught. And, for maybe the first time in his life, and certainly for the first time in his presidency*, nobody's going to step up and take the fall. Even Giuliani, eventually, will opt for self-preservation and not dying in prison. If you read the transcripts closely—Nice T-shirts the other night, by the way—you also will see the likes of Mark Meadows floundering and flopping around trying to fit what they're hearing into their previous, spurious narratives. It's like watching goats ice skate. (Devin Nunes, scourge of Internet ruminants, even brings up The Steele Dossier, because that's what good lawn ornaments, too.)

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a29702913/gordon-sondland-house-testimony-ukraine-call-donald-trump/

[dawg day]

1. Someone's got to tell Rudy that his new younger almost-wife might not wait for him

to hobble out of prison in four years.

[mcar]

3. 'specially when his money is all gone

[wryter2000]

6. Is another woman getting ready to marry him?

I despair for my sex.

[rzemanfl]

9. It's your gender. The other you still have. n/t

[Pachamama]

2. Quid Pro Quo This For That

Another way of saying it


Oh yes they did it...

[mcar]

4. They sure did

I'm amused watching the few remaining dotard defenders twisting in the wind.

[wryter2000]

5. "Like watching goats ice skate."

"That's what good lawn ornaments do."

Dayum. Why can't I write like that?

[safeinOhio]

7. I didn't pay a million bucks

for 10 years of 3 hots and a cot.

[Wellstone ruled]

8. Sondland knows where his Bread is Buttered and it

is not kissing Trumps ass. His Hotel Business must be getting brutalized back home. And he knows his Business would be shut out of the Finance Market if he was ever charged with Lying to Congress.

His Spouse has served a warning that their Hotels are taking a hit due to his association with Trump.