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pepperbear

(5,648 posts) Sun Oct 13, 2019, 07:50 AM Oct 2019

Trump's envoy to testify that 'no quid pro quo' came from Trump

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. “It’s only true that the president said it, not that it was the truth,” said the person familiar with Sondland’s planned testimony, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive diplomatic matters.

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OK, what does that even mean?

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Trump's envoy to testify that 'no quid pro quo' came from Trump (Original Post) pepperbear Oct 2019 OP

It means Sondland is implicating Trump. Or he's saying that to OnDoutside Oct 2019 #1

I hope he thinks long and hard about whether his tax cut was worth it. Vinca Oct 2019 #2

It means, as one former Trump associate said... TreasonousBastard Oct 2019 #3

Did anyone think otherwise? kentuck Oct 2019 #4

It means Sondland has settled on a story that he believes protects him and Trump DrToast Oct 2019 #5

OnDoutside

(19,962 posts)

1. It means Sondland is implicating Trump. Or he's saying that to

Reply to pepperbear (Original post)

Sun Oct 13, 2019, 07:53 AM

Oct 2019

put pressure on Trump.

Vinca

(50,278 posts)

2. I hope he thinks long and hard about whether his tax cut was worth it.

Reply to pepperbear (Original post)

Sun Oct 13, 2019, 07:57 AM

Oct 2019

Maybe someone should show him photos of dead Kurdish kids. That's what his million dollar donation also bought.

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)

3. It means, as one former Trump associate said...

Reply to pepperbear (Original post)

Sun Oct 13, 2019, 07:58 AM

Oct 2019

"Even when he could tell the truth, he lies just to keep in practice."

I wish I could find that quote again, but I did find this from Truman:

"Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in."

kentuck

(111,102 posts)

4. Did anyone think otherwise?

Reply to pepperbear (Original post)

Sun Oct 13, 2019, 07:59 AM

Oct 2019

Except Kevin McCarthy?

DrToast

(6,414 posts)

5. It means Sondland has settled on a story that he believes protects him and Trump