- Sat Nov 30, 2019 8:37 am
#121030
"Sondland is certainly entitled to his "presumption" that there was a quid pro quo.
But that is not evidence, and he admitted Trump specifically told him he did NOT want a quid pro quo."-johnfibs
But that was not until after Trump was outed by the whistleblower. Until then, Sondland, and Giuliani and everyone else in the shadow government was operating on that "presumption" and were reporting to Trump about the progress being made. Trump did not "correct" any of their "presumptions". And later Trump admitted to reporters on the White House lawn that his aim in making the call was to get an investigation into the Bidens. Trump said so himself on October 3.
"That aside, this entire Democrat argument is nonsense because almost every successful diplomatic effort in human history has involved attempted quid pro quos."-johnflubs
And now we see johnforbes trying to cover his ass and essentially admitting there was a quid pro quo after insisting there was "no quid and no quo" as his handlers had instructed him to do previously. He's flailing about trying to make the quid pro quo appear perfectly fine and normal, except Trump traded U.S. security and U.S. interests for personal political gain, and that's a crime, johnny.
Well, not a crime to Republicans, of course, but it is still against the law whether they like it or not. They would trade away their own mothers for money and an election win and still sleep like babies. Why should their country be any more important to them?