"A handful of Republican senators reached out to Cronus, concerned that it would look bad for him to devour his own children, but ..." 
It's very striking in the Baker-Schmidt report that the Republican senators expressed much more sympathy for Amb Sondland- who lied until he was cornered, and probably did not tell the full truth even then - than for Col. Vindman nytimes.com/2020/02/08/us/…
It may be relevant to the senators' choice of targets for "concern" that Sondland has been a long-standing Republican donor, whereas Vindman has never given anything to anybody except his body to his country
