.MaddowBlog: Pres. Trump points to purported evidence, which is actually ‘meaningless.'
The public recently learned of text messages between Bill Taylor, the acting U.S. ambassador in Ukraine and U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland, in which the former made his dissatisfaction clear to the latter.
It was a difficult message to accept at face value, since common sense suggests it was written as a cover story. But yesterday, we learned even more during Sondland’s sworn testimony about the conversation he had with Donald Trump after receiving Taylor’s text. The ambassador told lawmakers: For some reason, Trump immediately convinced himself that this was the game-over moment he’d been waiting for. The president carried with him handwritten notes on Sondland’s description of the September phone conversation, and he repeated the lines with great vigor in brief comments to White House reporters yesterday. The Republican proceeded to tweet about this soon after.
The Washington Post published a good analysis along these lines, noting that Sondland’s recollection of Trump’s comments is “almost meaningless.”
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