Sondland throws the Con and noun/verb/9/11 under the bus

[malaise]

We followed the President's orders

Adding Opening statement
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212707670

[PA Democrat]

1. He even confirmed the cell phone call with Trump

and the contents.

[malaise]

2. Happiness is

Justice is coming

Resign MoFo!

[Kid Berwyn]

36. Oh, happy day!

When all the emails are read: Rudy. Pompeo. Barr. Trump. Gone. Gone. Gone. Gone.

[tavernier]

53. Pence too.

And who does that leave???

Miss Cheese stands alone!

[Hortensis]

75. That would be nice, but maybe receive the results sitting down.

[MontanaMama]

62. The MF has already set the stage

for resignation for health reasons...can’t imagine his ego would allow it but the groundwork has been laid.

[malaise]

73. Which do you think he thinks is worse

Poor health resignation or impeachment - those are his options

[MontanaMama]

76. Depends!

What a shitty choice! Either way the SDNY is laughing maniacally in the corner waiting for him to leave office.

[ChazInAz]

87. Maybe not laughing maniacally.

I picture them sitting in that dark corner, chuckling nastily.

[Zoonart]

3. This is going to be good.

I knew this guy Sondland was not going to go to the wall for the con. His lawyers probably showed him some pics of Leavenworth.

[malaise]

8. I know his wife was not going to take it

We have a proverb here - showoff bring disgrace. Ah well! They are all fucked.

[Zoonart]

9. I LIKE IT!

[cilla4progress]

66. His wife?

Not following....?

I DID think someone in his circle must have found their MORALS!!!

[malaise]

70. I have heard and seen discussions that the wife has told him to come clean

She has no plan of losing everything.

Addtionally it is said that she is a registered Dem
https://heavy.com/news/2019/11/gordon-sondland-wife-katherine-durant/

[cilla4progress]

74. So funny, malaise,

This is exactly what crossed my mind when I saw he was telling all. That someone close to him convinced him to come clean. That his other choice was not viable,

Thanks, malaise, this guy is a piece of work!

[Mike 03]

4. I'm hearing this too!

WOW

Great Day Coming!

[PA Democrat]

5. Everything he did was ordered by the president.

YIKES! Trump is probably reaching for his cell phone as I type. Watch out Gordon!

[lagomorph777]

43. If Tweets could kill they probably will

[FrankBooth]

68. Lol

Classic

[DippyDem]

6. Yup!! MF45 is so fucked!

[2naSalit]

7. And once again, Speaker Pelosi was right...

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this will be wrapped up by Thanksgiving. I love her for her timing.

Here we go. It's OVER for this crowd!

I think I'll look to see what's going on in the cosmos! I think Mercury is about to shift gears.

[malaise]

11. She also knew he'd impeach himelf

Keep those boots on his neck Sister Nancy!!

[2naSalit]

26. What a sweet way to start the day.

Sondland, as many of these clowns, is in waaaay over his head and now he's wailing for Mr. Wizzard to bail him out.

[leftieNanner]

44. Drizzle Drazzle Drozzle Drome

Time for this one to come home!

[Gidney N Cloyd]

59. +1

[The Wizard]

33. When you have him down

put your heel on his neck and rotate. And when he tries to get up, kick him. The scoundrel has it coming. The cartel must be crushed.

[malaise]

35. Keep walking

[KPN]

46. It ain't over till the polls say it's over. Not there yet.

We have the party of “no laws when it meets our ends” to contend with. Only the public will influence them — not proof, evidence, law or reason. The Ukraine bribery was “not unusual”, “not inappropriate” and “not an impeachable act” according to their universe so far in these hearings. They will deny truth and the facts until the public demands otherwise. And the M$M isn’t helping with this so far imo.

[TwilightZone]

57. It's not over until it translates to a Trump loss in 2020.

Plenty of people disapproved of him in 2016 and still voted for him.

There's little reason to believe the same won't happen in 2020, but preferably in significantly smaller numbers this time, especially in swing states.

[KPN]

91. Unfortunately, yes. I agree with all you said.

[Hortensis]

80. Until the elections kick Repubs out of power.

Not just Trump. He's an explosive symptom of what's been happening for a long time.

All the big state and national leaders have become intensely corrupt and determined to overset the ability of the people to take their power. Most seem to be vastly underestimating the depth of their betrayal and just how far along it is. That's what nice people do when faced with something so bad they can't believe it.

[MontanaMama]

63. Isn't Mercury coming out of retrograde now?

Feels like something is about to give...breathing deeply here.

[2naSalit]

69. You're gonna love this

According to The Great Bear astrology and the Kosmic Calendar:

Wed Nov 20 Challenging and constructive sky configurations vie for supremacy as
Mercury makes the key cosmic headline by halting its three-week reversal and making a direct station at 12 degrees of Scorpio (11:15am). Putting you on the defensive are a square between Ceres and Chiron (6:18am), a tense, 135-degree link between Mars and Neptune (9:58am), plus the monthly polarity between the Moon in Virgo and Neptune in Pisces (8:52pm). This trio of celestial naysayers battle against a revelation-generating grand triangle composed of the Moon trine to Uranus in Taurus (12:13am) and Saturn in Capricorn (10:44pm). Focus attention on the following themes associated with the Messenger of the Gods planet to stay above the fray – communications, learning and primary education, words and language, transportation and travel plans, business and trade, messages and paper work, health and medical concerns, the five senses, air and breathing, wind and temperature changes. Since Mercury, like every celestial body, has a shadow side, don’t let down your guard concerning signings and agreements as Mercury is fundamentally motionless all of today and can influence earth dwellers positively or negatively. (Mercury will remain in direct motion until it begins a new retrograde cycle in Pisces on February 16, 2020.) [Note to readers: All times are calculated for Pacific Standard Time. Be sure to adjust all times according to your own local time so the alignments noted above will be exact for your location.]

[MontanaMama]

77. Holy hell.

That sums it up nicely.

[2naSalit]

79. Yes it does.

With Saturn and Neptune active...

Saturn, in this case, represents time-keeping in the cosmic sense, like karma. Neptune is the subconscious state which seems to mean, here, that soul-searching and truth-seeking is a theme for a day or two. With Mercury in this flux state, all inner personal things and communications are at the fore. What a perfect day for this! More events in the next few days are also significant, we can win this bigly.

[NightWatcher]

10. And pence and Pompeo. he's going to destroy them shortly.

[malaise]

13. Sadly I have to be on the road from 10.45 to about noon

but we're recording anyway

[Mike 03]

12. Sounds like POMPEO IS DONE too.

Bye Bye senate run!

[malaise]

16. Yep

I knew that Sondland's wife was not going to take it. He's a show pony for whom I have no sympathy.

[Mike 03]

20. Enjoy the morning!

[Hortensis]

82. Yes, because while we can. Because there's tomorrow.

[2naSalit]

47. Hope so....nt

[Mars and Minerva]

51. Kansas.

[2naSalit]

14. Get ready for

Waaaambulance arrival at the WH!!!

[BuffaloJackalope]

15. "Jawohl, mein Fuhrer!"

[Mike 03]

17. Looking forward to the Wednesday Morning Massacre.

[malaise]

19. THIS

Truth will out!

[Hortensis]

83. Let's hope, because it'll take more than this confirmation

of what people already know but so far don't believe is bad enough to remove him for. We need more, and hopefully we're still in the beginning of a cascade of shockers that'll convince McConnell his own power can only be saved by dumping Trump. And keeping Pence, though I pray it ruins him also.

Sorry to be a downer, but I'm afraid post-impeachment the most powerful man on the planet will be convinced of his invincibility, terrified, and raging and vengeful all at once. Best to be prepared in case.

[UpInArms]

18. What are you hearing and where?

The hearing hasn’t started yet ...

And my curiosity is killing my cat!

[malaise]

23. Breaking on M$NBComcast

Sondland to implicate the Con and Pompeo - Sondland has entered the room

[UpInArms]

25. Thank you!

[malaise]

32. Opening statement

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212707670

[TruckFump]

52. Wow!!! EOM

[Dennis Donovan]

21. We should start calling him Gordon "the Bull" Sondland!

[malaise]

24. We need to call his wife

The real MOTHER

[exboyfil]

28. I am sure the word mother is being used in the WH

right now quite a lot.

And not in a nice way.

[malaise]

29. You win the thread

[Peacetrain]

22. HOLY COW!!!!!!!

[eleny]

27. So this is it

Bracing myself here.

[ashredux]

30. He now is the "Bus Driver" and he is heading straight for Trump.

He is going to tell all.....He now is the “Bus Driver” and he is heading straight for Trump.

[malaise]

31. Looks that way

Get your snacks

[Chakaconcarne]

34. So Trump had a psychotic breakdown over the weekend when he found out about this?

[malaise]

37. Makes sense

ITTMF RFN!

[hkp11]

38. fireworks!!

Yesterday there was news that Sondland would plead the 5th, but this is the opposite!!

Here is direct link to Sondland's opening statement:
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6486412/Opening-Statement-Ambassador-Sondland-October-17.pdf

[Iliyah]

39. Happy Birthday VP Biden . . . .

[Peacetrain]

40. Hell of a present isn't it!!

[malaise]

41. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

One of my nieces has a birthday today -

[tanyev]

42. Monster Bus!

[malaise]

45. Front wheel just hit Pompeo and the Con

[UpInArms]

48. Giuliani now being squished

By giant tires ... and there goes trump ...

Bump bump bump

[grantcart]

72. Enough room for Pence?

[OneGrassRoot]

49. Any way Barr can be under a huge tire?

I haven't heard his name in all this but would sure love to.

[bitterross]

50. "We were just following orders" has not worked very well for people in the past

People seem to forget that's not a viable defense. It's more of a hanging offense - as history shows.

[WheelWalker]

61. The "Nuremberg Defense." And we know how that turned out. We hung 'em.

[IndyOp]

54. Not so much... he's claiming Hill and Bolton were

not accurate in their description of the meeting that Bolton ended abruptly.

[spanone]

55. K&R...👍🏼

[Woodwizard]

56. Wish I was a fly on 45's wall right now.

[Ligyron]

58. The craziest and almost more incredible thing is:

After no doubt being informed in no uncertain terms by WH legal, etc, that this is an illegal act, the idiot goes out into the driveway and commits basically the same illegal act yet again!!

[malaise]

60. Yep

THIS arrogance hubris and a sense of entitlement

[R B Garr]

64. This is awesome! His wife must have given him the

business. It was reported, I think on Morning Joe, that his wife reminded him of some priorities, lol.

[pecosbob]

65. With the Gang that Couldn't Shoot Straight, it's a undoubtedly a very short bus

[Dopers_Greed]

67. I bet the Con is going to have another "spur of the moment" physical after this

[tazmaniac]

71. Happy Happy Joy Joy Can't wait

I can't wait to see what the repugs questioning of Sondland will be!!!

[DarleenMB]

78. Just heard him say

that he talked to Trump briefly asking WHAT did he (Trump) want and ... wait for it. Sondland says that Trump said "nothing. NO quid pro quo NOTHING."

Who thinks Sondland is lying? Anyone?

[Cuthbert Allgood]

81. "Barely knew the guy"

You know that's coming.

[dchill]

86. Never Trumper ain't gonna work.

[Cuthbert Allgood]

94. About 30% of the population will eat whatever shit sandwich Trump gives them.

But, hopefully that gets a little smaller today.

[vlyons]

84. He will be gone come inauguration day Jan 2021 at the latest

He won't resign. The senate will probably not convict him, unless Moscow Mitch determines that his leadership and/or re-election is in jeopardy. Which leaves Trump losing the general election, assuming he gets the nomination, which is not certain.

Trump lives in a constant state of denial, lies, and delusions of grandeur. He probably tells himself that he will survive senate conviction and be re-elected. But 35% of voters ain't enough to get re-elected.

I just hope that after his defeat that the next administration and/or the state of NY indicts him for some serious crimes. His tax returns will beb public by then. So obstruction of justice, tax fraud, bank fraud, wire fraud, insurance fraud will be what he faces. He'll have to sell off some of his properties, because the Russians ain't gonna fund him anymore. They will discard him as the piece of trash he is.

[the_sly_pig]

85. There is a difference......

Between testifying for courage and honor, and testifying for self preservation. Mr. Sondland is doing the latter. Lt. Colonel Vindman is an example of the former.

I believe the difference is crucial. F Sondland.

[Javaman]

88. HOLY SHIT! Yay!!!!! I just read this now!!!

just following orders LOL

[Sugar Smack]

89. This is like a blue-print to the collective madness!

We're hearing it RIGHT NOW!

[gab13by13]

90. Remember this folks,

Trump didn't just say, talk to Rudy, he said talk to Barr. We need to impeach Barr, he is going to come out with fake news soon.

[matt819]

92. Some of the posts here are fantastic

I wish there was a like or rec option on posts.

[Hekate]

93. Is there a link to the video of Sondland's opening statement? My gods this is wonderful...

At the moment all I have on my tv machine is Castro loudly whining -- oh wait, Schiff is on, I can un-mute it.