Rep Speier: Sondland is going to have to "pay" for his lack of candor and is on "thin ice."

[Dennis Donovan]

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Manu Raju ✔ @mkraju

Dems believe Sondland may have misled Congress in his closed deposition about his conversations with Trump. David Cicilline told me: “I think he misled the committee.”

Rep. Jackie Speier said Sondland is going to have to “pay” for his lack of candor and is on “thin ice.”

9:33 AM - Nov 14, 2019

[dalton99a]

1. Sondland lied.

[dhol82]

2. I think that's called perjury.

[FBaggins]

22. Yeah! Criminal referral!

That Barr fellow over at DOJ is sure to get right on that!

Oh wait...

[TheRealNorth]

32. How can you press charges?

It was a perfect deposition.

[pecosbob]

8. And so did Jeff Sessions at a televised hearing a while back

Now he's bloody running for Senate again. I just wish someone would eventually pay for lying to Congress...I'm waiting on Stone.

[fierywoman]

33. Me, I'm waiting on Kavanaugh.

[MFGsunny]

3. Trotting Traitor Tots end up fried.

Sondland will go down in the history books as "the million-dollar charlatan barker" along MF45.

[OhNo-Really]

14. A willing Trump tool caught in the web of deception

[gibraltar72]

4. I imagine his wife and her attorneys

are looking for ways to keep his empire in her control.

[murielm99]

5. Remind me never to stay in one of their hotels.

[KPN]

9. Okay, but which hotels are they?

[Raster]

17. Provenance Hotels, based in Portland, OR

https://skift.com/2019/10/16/provenance-hotels-faces-backlash-over-founders-role-in-trump-ukraine-deal/

[aggiesal]

19. Here is a link to all the Hotels they own

Provenance Hotels

There are 14 hotels, mostly in Washington & Oregon
But they own in Boston, Nashville, New Orleans & Palm Springs as well.

[Turbineguy]

30. These hotels seem pretty nice

artsy and comfortable. This man is obviously better at running hotels than being an international man of mystery and intrigue.

Although in all fairness I used to have a colleague who conducted his phone conversations with women loudly and on the speaker phone so everybody around would know he was going to get laid.

[Merlot]

6. So sondlands wife is the real villein?

Good to know.

(Not like that's a misogynistic stereotype or anything...)

[gibraltar72]

15. I didn't say that.

She warned him per news reports. She was not happy with the exposure and told him it would hurt them in long run.

[Scarsdale]

16. I doubt that she was too happy

when it was revealed that they had remodeling done at the embassy there, costing in the range of $1 Million. This is at taxpayer expense, so he got his donation back. Now, with any luck on our part, the Sondlands will not get to enjoy all the new upgrades. Too bad, like tRump, they did not stick with the hotel business.

[gibraltar72]

25. On one of the MSNBC shows perhaps Aris' ?

a lawyer said the truth is a whole lot different than the whole truth.

[comradebillyboy]

31. His wife is a a feudal tenant entirely subject to a lord or manor?

Because that's what a villein is. I haven't seen that word since I studied medieval English history.

[yellowcanine]

11. I think it was for the inaugural committee? Apparently the limits are much higher or nonexistent.

Yes it is a loophole which should be fixed. It is a favorite of ambassador wannabes.

[TheRealNorth]

28. Did anyone ever figure out where all that money went to?

I remember Rachel doing a piece comparing the Obama festivities with the Trump festivities and noted Obama did a lot more with less money.

[world wide wally]

10. Squeeze this creep HARD!

[SayItLoud]

12. Betting Sondland is a NO SHOW. Then what? nt.

[Raster]

18. He can be a no-show all he likes...

...the statute of limitations for lying to Congress (PERJURY) is five years. And Sondland LIED. TO. CONGRESS.

[Eliot Rosewater]

27. And it is now up to a KGB agent aka Barr to indict, he wont, ever.

And unless we get our shits together putin will shut down our power grid and web on election day.

He will make it so counting is impossible or he will hack the system and cheat to elect the prick.

I call Barr and anyone who helps him or approves KGB because their actions will result in the same as if they were.

When are we going to figure this out, they do not CARE about the law or the constitution or any of us!

I am just frustrated, sorry.

[Brother Buzz]

21. That ship already sailed

The ass already testified behind closed doors, then even amended his words. He's in WAY over his head

[slumcamper]

20. This is what you get when you lay with snakes.

Dude could be getting a massage while sipping Patron on a white sand beach at the edge of blue water on a remote island in Polynesia.

Instead, he chose to toss a mill to the viper for a chance to lick his scaly ass.

There is no place in hell bad enough for these people.

[MartyTheGreek]

23. But I thought he came back to "clean that up."

His memory was suddenly refreshed was that last week? What am I missing, what's new here?

[Grammy23]

24. Perhaps only partially cleared up.

Maybe he needs to spend some uninterrupted time in a cell so he can focus his recall a little better.

[MartyTheGreek]

26. I got it now... He said it out loud in a restaurant on a private line!

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142395030

My self correction. Now, I'm refreshed. Hard to keep up with all the plot lines. More than Mr. Robot for sure!

[empedocles]

29. MSNBC, ex-prosecutor Chuck Rosenberg yesterday went over Sondland's

comical, what would be the 3rd, 'I forgot to tell the Committee'. It would seem be memorable. Sondland was at a restaurant, talking to trump about the very suspect Ukraine deal, with President trump - and he 'forgot' that conversation?

Anyway, Rosenberg said on MSNBC, that given Sondland's legal troubles, Sondland would need to 'flip'.

This would be direct testimony, bypassing usual 'con excuses, aimed right at trump.

[Also, could lead other potential 'flippers' to reevaluate their 'prospects'].