Amb. Gordon Sondland delivers opening statement at House Impeachment hearing | ABC News

1. Schiff is wasting USA time by not ending impeachment.

   He is involved in Burisma Co. through Atlantic sink Co. which is also part of Burisma.

2. As an ex-Pat American living in the Netherlands… I am extremely disturbed that this lying, cover-up artist, and snake-in-the-grass is associated in any way with the EU; or representing the USA in any form, matter, or manner. PLEASE REMOVE this corporate piece of shit from any EU post asap.

3. Sondland is the latest Never (going to prison for) Trumper.

4. Finally a man intelligent enough to realize…THE GIG IS UP. These brain dead GOP senators with their fingers in their ears will not fare well in history. They will be laughing stocks to generations to come because they have prostituted themselves to trump.

5. Republicans keep harping on the question:  Do you think there is a [potential-appearance] of conflict of interest?  Congressman Elise Stefanik of N.Y. said, when asked-every witness testimony has agreed that there is a potential appearance…Heck, even I agree there was a POTENTIAL-APPEARANCE of of conflict of interest.  But why do so many people understand this to be an "I Gotch ya" moment?  I know there a several three syllable words in that question, so I wouldn't expect republicans to comprehend the question.  Potential-has no DEFINITIVE meaning in this question. Appearance-is a SUBJECTIVE word.  An analogy could be: You see a woman wearing a very short skirt, revealing tight-busted blouse, fishnet hosiery and thigh high boots…Does she have the POTENTIAL-APPEARANCE of being a prostitute. The answer is of coarse yes-people may potentially believe that to be true.  Does she have the appearance of being a prostitute?  According to what [society] has ingrained in our minds-most likely, she would APPEAR to be as such.  And this is purely a SUBJECTIVE perception.  Evangelicals of the red-states would immediately label her a JEZEBEL.  But is this woman indeed a JEZEBEL or simply have bad taste in clothing?

   So indeed, there is a potential-appearance of Hunter Biden's high-paying Ukraine job to be a conflict of interest.  But a accepting a high-paying job in not indicative of corruption.

6. SWAMP……is alive and full

7. Watch this in its entirety. Not exactly the boom shell after all.

8. Americas Main Stream Media really do deserve the title "Fake News." Look at the Truth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHq4U3FbMcE

9. The truth will set you free my friend 😂

10. This guy went down and dragged everybody else with him 😂

11. Pinocio!!!

12. wow

13. BFD! So what that the President wanted to make sure OUR tax dollars was going to a country that is going to be on the up and up.
    It goes a lot deeper then what you see here folks. Ukrain DID interfere with the 2016 election and WE have every right to get to the bottom of it. The Deep State is Evil! Californians who stand with Trump!

14. The inauguration of Zelensky was a “ Formal” event… why wasn’t Vindman wearing his uniform

15. I would like to consider myself an independent who leans slightly more conservative but these ridiculous democrats are making it tough. Dems know the majority of voters don't pay much attention to details of day to day politics. They are attempting to get enough voters who know little about what is happening to associate Trump with impeachment. Why don't they just find a better candidate to run against him?

16. Under oath. Again. It’s not credible that everyone is lying under oath except Trump.

17. Quid pro quo : NOUN
    [a favor or advantage granted or expected in return for something] .

    And furthermore what about the ongoing violations of the “emoluments clause” by the current administration.

    When a U.S. President publicly or privately states that he or she would like a foreign entity to interfere in the U.S. Political Process , that should be an open and shut case against that sitting President …. Full Stop 🛑

18. A tax cheat. Soundland claimed to live in Seattle (no income tax) but owned cars registered in Oregon (no sales tax.)

19. Too bad for Sondland:

    "Did anyone ever ask you to bribe or extort anyone at any time during your time in the White House?" House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Devin Nunes, R-Calif., asked at one point in Tuesday's afternoon hearing.

    Former National Security Council (NSC) aide Tim Morrison: "No."

    Former U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine Kurt Volker: “No."

    Later, Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., covered similar ground in asking the witnesses about Trump's fateful July 25 call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky: "Mr. Morrison, you were on that call, and there was no quid pro quo, correct? No bribery? No extortion?

    "Correct," Morrison replied in response to each question.

    "And, Ambassador Volker, I presume you got a readout of the call. … Was there any reference to withholding aid? Any reference to bribery? Any reference to quid pro quo? Any reference to extortion?"

    "No, there was not," Volker replied, again and again.

    The answers underscored a problem facing House Democrats as their impeachment inquiry continued into its second week of public hearings: With more witnesses testifying, more soundbites have emerged that may help Republicans and the Trump campaign argue that the proceedings were politically motivated theater, long in the works and foreshadowed openly by Democrats for months, if not years.

    Morrison, in another key moment, testified Tuesday afternoon that he understood the transcript of Trump's call with Ukraine's leader wound up on a highly secured and classified computer system due to an "administrative error" — not, as Democrats have alleged, because the president wanted to hide his conversation.

    And, Volker testified repeatedly that he never received any indications at all that there was an improper quid pro quo with Ukraine, in which the Trump administration allegedly sought a probe of former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter in exchange for military aid.

    Ohio GOP Rep. Jim Jordan:

    "Kind of hard to prove a corrupt quid pro quo theory when the key U.S. policy people, plus the Ukrainians, were never aware of such an arrangement," Texas GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw added late Tuesday, noting that Ukraine's president has said he felt no pressure from Trump to open any probes. "Can we go back to governing now, that’d be great thanks."

    Morrison and Volker's testimony was sought by the GOP, and the two undercut Democrats' poll-tested claims of White House "bribery" and a cover-up. But, they also raised new questions concerning the administration's use of the little-discussed codeword-level system that ordinarily held sensitive national-security information. Back in September, a senior Trump administration official acknowledged that White House lawyers directed moving the transcript of the call to the secure system, noting that several of Trump's previous phone calls with foreign leaders had leaked to the media.

    Morrison previously testified behind closed doors that senior NSC lawyer John Eisenberg had relayed to him that his secretary accidentally put the transcript in the classified system. Morrison said Eisenberg wanted to "restrict access" to the transcript, but maintained that the secretary had apparently misinterpreted that instruction.

    "It was represented to me that it was a mistake," Morrison testified Tuesday, saying he tried to "pull up the package in our system" but was prevented from doing so. When he asked why the transcript was unavailable, he testified that he was "informed it had been moved to the higher classification system" at Eisenberg's direction. Then, Eisenberg told Morrison that he "gave no such direction" and that it was an "administrative error," according to Morrison.

    Morrison said to the best of his knowledge, there was no "malicious intent" in the decision to move the transcript to the compartmentalized system, and all essential personnel retained access to the transcript even after it was moved.

    Later in the day, Volker made clear he had not seen anything to support Democrats' contention that Trump improperly withheld foreign aid to Ukraine as a means of forcing an investigation into the Bidens' dealings in the country.

    Instead, Volker suggested — in a moment that the Trump campaign reposted on social media – that Trump's general hesitation to provide foreign aid, especially to corrupt countries, was the prevailing justification for holding up aid to Ukraine temporarily.

    Asked again whether he saw any evidence that Trump had committed "bribery" — the term Democrats have taken to using, after focus groups indicated that it would help them sell impeachment to voters — Volker was unequivocal that he had not. In fact, Volker said, Trump never linked any probe of Burisma or the Bidens to any military aid. Hunter Biden sat on Burisma's board while his father spearheaded Ukraine policy as vice president.

20. So more nothing basically 😂 Just a bunch of DRUMPF salty haters!

21. If you’re going to give money to people , should you be absolutely certain it’s going to the right people ?

22. Nunes is a talking mouth piece for the President and is just trying to bully and muddy the water to confuse the American people on the issues of his involvement with the Ukrainian government. I believe that Trump and his had picked minions are guilty of corruption, greed and lying. Trump is a liar, con and a racist. Some will never be convinced otherwise because they subscribe to the same ideology and beliefs system as Trump. Others who don’t come from white privilege and have experience oppression because of racism will subscribe to the ideology he is guilty and needs to be impeached.

23. Gotta vent – right now Nunes is asking Sondland a bunch of UNRELATED QUESTIONS about a few Ukrainians who supposedly didn’t like trump during the election!
    Something Sondland knows NOTHING ABOUT and wasn’t there to witness!!
    Also who cares, the UK, China and Japan, didn’t support Trump yet he does just fine working with them.
    It makes sense for Ukraine to want the person Russia doesn’t want to win, OBVIOUSLY.
    Did Ukraine launch a disinformation campaign in the US – NO THEY DID NOT!!

    What does this have to do with trump holding up 400million dollars and demanding specific investigations in 2019 – ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!

24. I'm happy for him happy so happy speaking the truth it seems that the truth is hard The Spill out but he's doing it I'm happy he helped himself

25. Is this a job interview ?

26. Everyone is going to prison except Trump..all these people followed direct orders from Trump.. he should be locked up as well…

27. Was Sondland lying before he flipped or now?

    Either way, a liar is not credible.

28. Everyone around Trump is going to jail…. He'll pay his way out of it

29. Trump is going to jail.

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