GOP Lawmakers 'Shaken' by Overheard Phone Call

[swag]

Source: Political Wire



“Several Republican lawmakers were more ‘shaken’ than they publicly let on by the testimony of a US official in Kiev who overheard a phone conversation between the US ambassador to the European Union and President Trump,” CNN reports.

“David Holmes — who will testify publicly as part of the House impeachment inquiry — said in closed-door testimony last week that US Ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland had told Trump that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky ‘loves your ass’ and that Ukraine was going to move forward with the investigation Trump had asked Zelensky for a day earlier.”

“According to the GOP congressional source, that testimony led several GOP lawmakers to express frustration that Sondland would place a call to the President in a public restaurant, and are concerned that Holmes’ testimony was the most convincing argument for Trump’s direct involvement in the campaign to pressure Ukraine.”

Read more: https://politicalwire.com/2019/11/18/gop-lawmakers-shaken-by-overheard-phone-call/

[Still In Wisconsin]

1. Are they also concerned? Troubled?

Who cares.

[lastlib]

21. Maybe to the point of thoughts and prayers....

which means they couldn't give a flying fornication.

[lagomorph777]

31. Shaken, not stirred?

Screw 'em. They're gonna get creamed in 2020.

[Iliyah]

2. Not shaken enough to do the right thing for the country tho.

[Delphinus]

4. what you said

Those were exactly the words I said when reading it.

[TeamPooka]

20. this

[calimary]

22. No kidding. Maybe shaken. But not stirred.

You’re STILL not waking up, CONS? STILL determines to go down with this ship of fools?

[Gore1FL]

3. I'll be more impressed when they are stirred...

...stirred to do something about this.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

19. This

[klook]

5. "Deeply troubled," etc.

They need a roulette wheel for all these “concerned-but-not-doing-jackshit” states of mind.

https://www.powerthesaurus.org/deeply_troubled

[not fooled]

6. AND put their names out there

Oooohhhh...big bad pukes askairt red don will make a mean tweet.

[FailureToCommunicate]

7. Shaken...but not stirred.

[dchill]

8. Jinx! I was gonna post that!

[PSPS]

9. Softball, misleading headline. "Shaken" not over the facts but over their public revelation.

[pat_k]

26. It's not wrong if you don't get caught

They are so upset because every revelation makes it harder for them to hang onto their insane belief that "we don't REALLLY have a smoking gun because {latest bullshit}."

For way too many republicans, committing crimes is not wrong unless you get caught. Literally. They don't think they've done anything wrong if they "get away with it."

They know Trump was running an extortion campaign against the Ukraine. The weight of the evidence is overwhelming. However, as long as they can rationalize and dismiss the various "pieces" as hearsay, or whatever, they can continue to believe Trump hasn't really been "caught" -- and therefore has done no wrong.

[iluvtennis]

10. Shaken 😕 What are they going to do about it? nt

[paleotn]

11. Amateur hour.

The clean up will take years. Maybe decades.

[csziggy]

30. Hell, we're still cleaning out the trash left over from Watergate and Nixon

Look at how many of Nixon's toadies are still running around and how many are still tied up with Republican wrong doings.

Maybe Treasonous Don's activities will finally clean out that cesspool, but I doubt it.

[Pepsidog]

12. They could care less. Traitors the whole lot of them.

[sakabatou]

13. Shaken, but they won't do anything

[BootinUp]

14. when r they gonna hit by lightning?

[hvn_nbr_2]

15. Big breaks follow cracks follow small cracks follow stresses...

This is good news. Pukes aren't going to suddenly become en masse advocates of impeachment. It's beginning.

[Yavin4]

16. What Susan Collins "concern" level are they at?

1. Just concern
2. Deeply concerned
3. Deeply concerned and troubled

[Perseus]

17. They are concerned the Holme's testimony was the most convincing...My lord!

But they are not concerned about the essence of the call, the fact that the con was the "mind" behind the extortion, that they were talking on a cell phone where Putin could be listening to the conversation, that they were committing a crime, that Sondland was complicit in the conspiracy, that there was a conspiracy, that the con is a criminal and unfit for office, etc. etc.

They are only concerned that this may mean "they got caught"...traitors, all of them.

[dansolo]

28. No, they are concerned at how sloppy they are

These guys were duscussing these thing over unsecured phones. Can you imagine how may other calls may have been overheard. That is what they are concerned about - how many other shoes are about to drop.

[zaj]

18. Shaken enough to send Thoughts and Prayers?

Cause then we'll know it's legit.

[CaptainTruth]

23. I could say what I think about those "GOP Lawmakers"...

...but it would probably get me banned from this site ...

[Hekate]

24. Awww. Now prove it.

[Ford_Prefect]

25. What they most fear is that the Orangutan was heard by witnesses whom they don't control

and whom they can't subvert.

Which means they will have to do something that resembles governance. That is something they really dread doing. Something they do not desire to be seen doing since they will do it badly, and they hate looking bad in public.

They were along for the ride. Trump wasn't supposed to go off on his own like this, or at least he wasn't supposed to be caught in the act. They were promised that he wouldn't get them tied up in anything that would disturb their calculated dismantling of Federal Democracy and their wholesale corruption of government into a cash cow.

Trump was supposed to keep the Democrats and the Press distracted by stoking the horror show and accusing anyone who mentioned that the sky might be falling of being subversively anti-Trump, anti-American, and anti-Business.

...Oops!

(I wonder in what little room in Fort Meade is the recording sitting, waiting to be heard by the committee?)

[nitpicker]

27. From the original CNN article

https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/18/politics/david-holmes-to-testify-thursday/index.html

(snip)
Holmes' testimony is making some GOP members worry about how far Sondland will go in his public testimony on Wednesday and two senior Republican sources say that some House Republicans are worried about how Sondland will handle himself at the hearing.
(snip)

[pecosbob]

29. I agree with the above poster...they're only shaken that the conversation was public.

Two-thirds of the GOP have been accepting foreign money into their campaigns for decades.