Gordon Sondland has told the world what’s been perfectly obvious: that Trump’s crooked scheme was directed from the beginning by Trump himself. jonathanchait writes
Gordon Sondland Photo: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images Gordon Sondland, the European Union ambassador, was a lynchpin of President Trump’s defense in the Ukraine scandal. Sondland had been a loyal functionary throughout, carrying out the president’s directives dutifully if reluctantly. Republicans publicly telegraphed their plan to pin the whole scheme on Sondland and portray him as having acted alone.
Sondland undercut the Republican defense that Trump somehow cared about corruption, testifying that Trump didn’t even care about Ukraine conducting the investigations he demanded. Trump merely demanded the announcement of the investigations, which he could tout as evidence of the apparent criminality of Joe Biden and the FBI.
The shock of these developments was registered on Devin Nunes’s face. The White House had attempted to procure an advance copy of Sondland’s testimony, to no avail. Yesterday, Republicans were still trying to insist there was no evidence of a quid pro quo, and that nothing had tied Trump himself to the plot. Sondland “testified previously that he had spoken to POTUS and POTUS had said no quid pro quo.
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