I’m glad to read the Sondland legal/PR team’s brainstorming but a number of these balloons just won’t fly. washingtonpost.com/world/national…
“It was a quid pro quo, but not a corrupt one” — just, c’mon.
“Sondland [...] didn’t know about the Biden connection until a whistleblower complaint and transcript surfaced in late September.” — what did he think Bill Taylor meant by ‘help with a political campaign’?
“Sondland [...] didn’t know about the Biden connection until a whistleblower complaint and transcript surfaced in late September.” — what did he think Bill Taylor meant by ‘help with a political campaign’?
“The statement that Rudy was demanding was a quid pro quo for a WH visit, there was no doubt about that. But it was about corruption, which from their perspective wasn’t particularly problematic, it’s an issue the U.S. had been dealing with there for years.” — cf. 7/21 texts👇 
“Sondland plans to tell lawmakers he has no knowledge of whether the president was telling him the truth at that moment [when Trump denies he wants a quid pro quo]” — **substantially undercut** by Sondland’s person’s admission 9 grafs later (“It was a quid pro quo”) and by texts
