HOLMES: “I’ve never seen anything like this, someone calling the President from a mobile phone at a restaurant, and then having a conversation of this level of candor, colorful language. There's just so much about the call that was so remarkable that I remember it vividly.” (p54)
“Now what led you to believe the President didn’t give a shit about Ukraine?” (p.55)
Holmes describes telling his deputy chief of mission about the Sondland lunch — “for months we’d be hearing about things like the Biden investigation... So it had a ring of truth to it.” (p. 57)
“I’ve never been through an impeachment before.”
Holmes describes his uncertainty about coming forward with his account of the lunch, and eventually did so after he “started hearing there was not a lot of first-hand information.” (p. 62-3)
Holmes challenging main WH/GOP talking point that Zelensky felt no pressure from Trump—
“I think the Ukrainians gradually came to understand they were being asked to do something in exchange for the meeting and the security assistance hold being lifted.” (p. 157)
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