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🚨BREAKING: Gordon Sondland intends to testify that the text he wrote denying a quid pro quo with #Ukraine was relayed to him directly by @realDonaldTrump in a call: “It’s only true that the president said it, not that it was the truth.”🔥

#Ukrainegate
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After acting ambassador to #Ukraine Bill Taylor texted Sondland/ “I think it’s crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign,” Sondland called @realDonaldTrump, who told Sondland he didn’t “want a quid pro quo…didn’t want anything from #Ukraine.”🔥
Sondland appears to be throwing TRUMP under the bus, basically saying that he took Trump at his word that there wasn’t a quid pro quo with #Ukraine.🧐

#Ukrainegate #Corruption #ImpeachTrump

🔥Sondland will testify that he worked at the direction of @RudyGiuliani to secure the “deliverable” sought by Trump: public statement from #Ukraine to investigate corruption, including mentioning Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company by name, in exchange for a coveted WH audience.
My God. This is DAMNING. Trump’s *own pick* as EU Ambassador is planning to testify that Trump was fully aware *and* authorized an ILLEGAL shake down of #Ukraine👉🏼 $391,000,000 of American aid,
In exchange for manufacturing dirt on a political rival.🤬

Clearly, the rats are fleeing. Sondland *had* to know about #Ukrainegate after numerous TV appearances by Rudy, plus numerous news articles questioning whether Hunter Biden’s role at Burisma could prove to be a drag on Joe Biden’s campaign.🙄
Sondland worked with Rudy, Kurt Volker (special envoy to #Ukraine), and @SecretaryPerry as part of the U.S. delegation to the new #Ukraine president Zelensky’s inauguration.🤨

@VP Pence was supposed to go, but cancelled at the last minute.🧐

#Ukrainegate
🚨WOW: Pence cancelled an official visit to #Ukraine at the last minute. Cancelling a VP visit—especially at the last minute—is a *big* deal and appears to be part of Trump’s pressure campaign on #Ukraine.

Meaning: #PenceKnew about #Ukrainegate.🔥

Of course, Rudy is blaming Sondland, saying Sondland’s role was more expansive and that they spoke about 6 times this summer about #Ukraine. “He seemed to be in charge. It just seemed like he was more decisive,” Giuliani said.🤣

The rats are FLEEING!🤣

#Ukrainegate
I don’t foresee *any* of these #Ukrainegate characters—Rudy, Sondland, or Volker—going to prison for Trump. Instead, it’s a rat race to the best deal.😎

#Ukrainegate #TrumpRussia #ImpeachTrump

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Dr. Dena Grayson
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⁉️WHAT⁉️

@SenatorWicker’s office says after 18 mo it has gotten NO answer from DOJ on why Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry Firtash—who bankrolled Paul Manafort & Giuliani’s #Ukrainegate henchmen—has not been extradited to the US to face federal #bribery charges.
nbcnews.com/politics/justi…
In June, #Austria approved the extradition of Firtash, who has been living there since his 2014 arrest.

Wicker wrote then-AG Sessions in Apr’2018 about Firtash, alleging that Firtash—ties to the #Russian🇷🇺mob—had made "hundreds of millions" in "illicit profits.”

#Ukrainegate
What does @SenatorWicker think about Firtash—whom Wicker correctly noted has close ties with the #Russian🇷🇺mob—bankrolling @realDonaldTrump’s and Giuliani’s #Ukrainegate henchmen⁉️

#ComplicitGOP

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Dr. Dena Grayson
@DrDenaGrayson
🚨John Bolton told Fiona Hill to alert the National Security Council’s top lawyer about a rogue effort by Gordon Sondland, Rudy Giuliani & Mick Mulvaney to pressure #Ukraine.

“I am not part of whatever drug deal Sondland & Mulvaney are cooking up.”
nytimes.com/2019/10/14/us/…
Hill testified that Bolton previously expressed grave concerns about the rogue effort to pressure #Ukraine being run by Giuliani: “Giuliani’s a hand grenade who’s going to blow everybody up.”🔥
🔥At a July 10 meeting w/Sondland, Volker, Rick Perry, and 2 Ukrainians, Bolton tried not to commit to a Trump/Zelensky meeting. Sondland got agitated b/c there was an agreement w/Mulvaney that there would be a meeting if #Ukraine opened up the investigations the WH was seeking.
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Dr. Dena Grayson
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🚨BREAKING: @RudyGiuliani is in a world of hurt. Federal prosecutors are probing Rudy’s business dealings in #Ukraine, including his finances, meetings and work for a city mayor, and have examined his bank records.😎

👋🏼Bye, Rudy.

#Ukrainegate #Corruption
wsj.com/articles/feder…
🔥Witnesses have been questioned by investigators about Rudy *since at least August*, who also are probing Rudy's role in an alleged #conspiracy involving his 2 #Ukrainegate henchmen, who were charged with funneling ILLEGAL #Russian🇷🇺money into Trump and @GOP coffers.🤬
The #MuellerReport—released publicly in mid-April—noted that 14 criminal cases were farmed out to other DOJ groups.

12 of these 14 cases were redacted (only Cohen and Greg Craig were disclosed).

Was Rudy one of the 12 REDACTED cases?🤔

#Ukrainegate
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Ryan Goodman
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What #Sondland OMITS from Opening Statement shows how extra-damning this is likely to get

Omissions:

1. Major media (including two NYT blockbusters) in May reported Giuliani pressure on Ukraine for Burisma-BIDEN probe

(Sondland can't credibly claim not knowing)

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2. Sondland opening remarks omits:

Content of July 10 meeting: Sondland personally pressed Ukrainians to investigate past cases, understood by US officials at Burisma-Biden (freaked out Bolton and Fiona Hill)

(Advice: believe Fiona Hill's testimony on this)
3. Sondland omits:

July 25: Mulvaney arranged for Sondland to prep Trump behind Bolton's back before call with Zelensky.

Note: prior version of WaPo story "indicated otherwise based on info provided by a person familiar with Sondland’s planned testimony"

Did he plan to lie?
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emptywheel
@emptywheel
Sondland, adopting the strategy that helped Don Jr avoid an indictment: he was too stupid to know he was breaking the law.
There are witnesses that at Sondland's first meeting he said his job was to break up the EU.

politico.com/f/?id=0000016d…
Sondland, who has been sharing drafts of his opening statement with the press for a week, claims he has not shared his opening statement.
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Manu Raju
@mkraju
#BREAKING: In opening statement we obtained, Gordon Sondland will testify that Trump put on hold effort to strengthen relations with Ukraine until top US officials were in contact with Giuliani, who had been pursuing investigation into the Bidens and 2016 elections. On @CNN now
“Based on the President's direction ... We could abandon the goal of a White House meeting for President Zelensky, which we all believed was crucial .. or we could do as President Trump directed and talk to Mr. Giuliani to address the President's concerns” cnn.com/2019/10/17/pol…
“Mr. Giuliani emphasized that the President wanted a public statement from President Zelensky committing Ukraine to look into anti-corruption issues ...
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Jack Weiss
@JacksDogma
1/ A short thread re Gordon Sondland’s expected testimony and cross-examination:

The WaPo reports Sondland will testify about personal conversations he had with Donald Trump about his Ukraine efforts –
2/ “that the content of a text message (Sondland) wrote denying a quid pro quo with Ukraine was relayed to him directly by President Trump in a phone call.”

washingtonpost.com/world/national…
3/ The WaPo story is probably the high-water mark for how “helpful” Sondland can be to the WH.
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Karol Cummins
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🌳Breathe🌳

Sondland says the content of a text he wrote denying a quid pro quo w/ UKR was relayed (dictated) to him directly by Trump in a phone call.

Perry, Sondland & Volker met with a “buzz saw” in the OO. Trump blamed opponents in UKR for attempting to undermine his elex.
🌳Breathe2🌳

“Trump said UKR ‘tried to do me in.’

They surmised that Giuliani had filled Trump’s head w/ a number of baseless conspiracy theories, inc’g that the hacked DNC server was spirited away to Ukraine.

Trump: “If you want to do something you have to talk to Rudy.”
🌳Breathe3🌳

Giuliani acknowledged that he and his associates worked with (corrupt) Ukrainian prosecutors to collect potentially damaging information about Amb Yovanovitch and other targets of Trump and his allies including Biden & Hunter Biden.

(Firtash hates Biden)
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Kyle Cheney
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! “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.” washingtonpost.com/world/national…
Even more incredible:

“It was a quid pro quo, but not a corrupt one,” the person familiar with Sondland’s testimony said. washingtonpost.com/world/national…
Can now add “President Trump told me to say...” before the start of each sentence in this text.
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