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SCOOP: Trumps EU envoy who denied a quid pro quo in a text message now says he isnt certain.
Its only true that the president said it, not that it was the truth says a person familiar with his planned testimony.
Its only true that the president said it, not that it was the truth says a person familiar with his planned testimony.
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Trump's envoy who denied quid pro quo now says he isn't certain
Source: Washington Post
The U.S. ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland, intends to tell Congress this week that the content of a text message he wrote denying a quid pro quo with Ukraine was relayed to him directly by President Trump in a phone call, according to a person familiar with his testimony.
Sondland plans to tell lawmakers he has no knowledge of whether the president was telling him the truth at that moment. Its only true that the president said it, not that it was the truth, said the person familiar with Sondlands planned testimony, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive diplomatic matters.
The Sept. 9 exchange between Sondland and the top U.S. diplomat to Ukraine has become central to the House Democrats impeachment inquiry into whether the president abused his office in pressuring Ukraine to open an investigation into his political rival Joe Biden and his son, who sat on the board of a Ukrainian energy company. The White House and its defenders have held up Sondlands text, which included no quid pro quos of any kind, as proof that none was ever considered.
Sondland will hold out the possibility that Trump wasnt truthful in his denial of a quid pro quo as well as an alternative scenario in which the presidents interest in the scheme soured at a time when his administration faced mounting scrutiny over why it was withholding about $400 million in security assistance to Ukraine and delaying a leader-level visit with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Whether hes deciding its getting too hot to handle and he backs off whatever his position really was a month earlier, I dont know, the person said of Sondlands understanding.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trumps-envoy-who-denied-quid-pro-quo-now-says-he-isnt-certain/2019/10/12/4abe0902-bc19-44e8-8c38-9aa35c544859_story.html
Source: Washington Post
The U.S. ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland, intends to tell Congress this week that the content of a text message he wrote denying a quid pro quo with Ukraine was relayed to him directly by President Trump in a phone call, according to a person familiar with his testimony.
Sondland plans to tell lawmakers he has no knowledge of whether the president was telling him the truth at that moment. Its only true that the president said it, not that it was the truth, said the person familiar with Sondlands planned testimony, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive diplomatic matters.
The Sept. 9 exchange between Sondland and the top U.S. diplomat to Ukraine has become central to the House Democrats impeachment inquiry into whether the president abused his office in pressuring Ukraine to open an investigation into his political rival Joe Biden and his son, who sat on the board of a Ukrainian energy company. The White House and its defenders have held up Sondlands text, which included no quid pro quos of any kind, as proof that none was ever considered.
Sondland will hold out the possibility that Trump wasnt truthful in his denial of a quid pro quo as well as an alternative scenario in which the presidents interest in the scheme soured at a time when his administration faced mounting scrutiny over why it was withholding about $400 million in security assistance to Ukraine and delaying a leader-level visit with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Whether hes deciding its getting too hot to handle and he backs off whatever his position really was a month earlier, I dont know, the person said of Sondlands understanding.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trumps-envoy-who-denied-quid-pro-quo-now-says-he-isnt-certain/2019/10/12/4abe0902-bc19-44e8-8c38-9aa35c544859_story.html
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SCOOP: Trump's EU envoy who denied a "quid pro quo" in a text message now says he isn't certain. (Original Post)
MelissaB
Oct 2019
OP
The first question should be, Is Ukraine in the EU? The 2nd, Why were you involved?
dem4decades
Oct 2019
#6
50 Shades Of Blue
(10,009 posts)1. W.H.O.A.
pbmus
(12,422 posts)2. The flames 🔥 get hotter and hotter near the orange glow..
WheelWalker
(8,955 posts)4. ...and it burns, burns, BURNS - that Ring of Fire!
pangaia
(24,324 posts)3. ""It's only true that the president said it, not that it was the truth"
Oh! THAT is rich !!!!!!!!
backtoblue
(11,343 posts)5. The quote that defines the whole presidency...
yonder
(9,666 posts)8. No kidding.
"...that the president said it, not that it was the truth." That could be a useful quote this coming year.
Even more fun if it would've been tRump himself saying that in one of his patented, 3rd person, me-babbles.
TwilightZone
(25,471 posts)9. Agreed.
It does, perfectly.
dem4decades
(11,296 posts)6. The first question should be, Is Ukraine in the EU? The 2nd, Why were you involved?
Kahuna7
(2,531 posts)7. Nothing to see here...
UTUSN
(70,706 posts)10. Well, he's a donor, unqualified "ambassador" so we can't really expect some integrity.
NCLefty
(3,678 posts)11. Even mentioning "quid pro quo" is a legal matter. Someone's (Trump's) lawyer came up with that.