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    Here’s All the People Sondland Just Threw Under the Bus
    Nov20

    Here’s All the People Sondland Just Threw Under the Bus

    Drew Angerer/GettyAmbassador Gordon Sondland is one of President Trump’s most ubiquitous and eager hatchet men in the attempt to get Ukraine officials to dig up dirt and launch investigations in former Vice President Joe Biden. But in his testimony on Wednesday the EU ambassador made clear that if he’s going to be the fall guy for the...

    ‘Thank God’: Putin thrilled U.S. ‘political battles’ over Ukraine taking focus off Russia
    Nov20

    ‘Thank God’: Putin thrilled U.S. ‘political battles’ over Ukraine taking focus off Russia

    “No one is accusing us of interfering in the U.S. elections anymore; now they’re accusing Ukraine,” the Russian president told an economic forum in Moscow. …read more Source::...

    Quid Pro Quo, The Critical Backstory
    Nov20

    Quid Pro Quo, The Critical Backstory

    Clarifying many points in the Ukraine scandal drama requires simply stating the obvious. And nowhere more so than in this now notorious Trump/Sondland phone call in which the President barked “no quid pro quo” to Sondland multiple times and said he wanted “nothing” from President Zelensky of Ukraine. The President and his supporters have rather...

    Pompeo on Sondland testimony: 'I didn't see a single thing today. I was working'
    Nov20

    Pompeo on Sondland testimony: 'I didn't see a single thing today. I was working'

    Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday said he “didn’t see” Ambassador to the European Union (EU) Gordon Sondland’s testimony in which Sondland said Pompeo was among officials “in the loop” about efforts to press Ukraine for… …read more Source:: The...

    What Gordon Sondland Does (And Doesn’t) Remember
    Nov20

    What Gordon Sondland Does (And Doesn’t) Remember

    Gordon Sondland this morning delivered the most damning congressional testimony against President Donald Trump since that of James Comey, the former FBI director whose firing led to a two-year investigation that consumed Trump’s presidency.But Sondland, Trump’s ambassador to the European Union, is no Comey, whose seemingly...

    Trump Insists He Told Sondland He Wanted ‘Nothing’ From Ukraine
    Nov20

    Trump Insists He Told Sondland He Wanted ‘Nothing’ From Ukraine

    Amid EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland’s blockbuster impeachment hearing on Wednesday, President Donald Trump took pains to emphasize he had not told Sondland outright during a particular meeting in September to facilitate a pressure campaign against Ukraine. In response to Sondland’s testimony that the Ukraine scheme was carried out on...

    Rudy Contradicts Sondland Testimony On Ukraine Pressure Campaign
    Nov20

    Rudy Contradicts Sondland Testimony On Ukraine Pressure Campaign

    This post has been updated to reflect that, after deleting the tweet in question Wednesday, Rudy Giuliani posted another tweet with the same claims. President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani tweeted a denial of a key detail in the ongoing impeachment inquiry, rejecting a witness’s testimony that Trump ordered him to work...

    Sondland Implicates Pence In Comment About Quid Pro Quo
    Nov20

    Sondland Implicates Pence In Comment About Quid Pro Quo

    Ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland relayed an exchange he had with Vice President Mike Pence when he alluded to the quid pro quo, and Pence nodded in response. Sondland said that it happened at a “briefing” with multiple people in the room just before Pence left to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Warsaw on September 1. Sondland...

    Fox Anchor Chris Wallace: Sondland Just Ran the Bus Over Trump, Pence, Pompeo, Giuliani and Mulvaney
    Nov20

    Fox Anchor Chris Wallace: Sondland Just Ran the Bus Over Trump, Pence, Pompeo, Giuliani and Mulvaney

    During the first break in Wednesday’s impeachment hearings—which featured U.S. Ambassador to the EU and million-dollar Trump donor Gordon Sondland at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here …read more Source:: The Daily...

    Seized Boats ‘Ruined’ By Russia Returned To Ukraine
    Nov20

    Seized Boats ‘Ruined’ By Russia Returned To Ukraine

    Three Ukrainian naval vessels, seized by Russia almost a year ago, returned to the Ukrainian port of Ochakiv on November 20. The Ukrainian navy said the three ships, two small Ukrainian armored artillery vessels and a tug boat, were in very poor condition and needed to be tugged into port by other vessels. …read more Source:: Radio Free...