(This post may contain disputed claims. We make no assertions as to the validity of the information presented by our Opinion Columnist. We are an opinion blog, not a traditional news outlet, and this post should be treated as such. Enjoy.)President Donald Trump has impeccable timing when it comes to politics. Right as Adam Schiff was on live TV conducting his impeachment farce and claiming Gordon Sondland’s testimony was a “bombshell,” the president gets the news networks to break into their coverage to go to him live. “It’s all over,” Trump said about the impeachment hearings. He then dropped a truth bomb that screwed up Schiff’s entire impeachment plan. You’ll love this.
As President Trump left the White House to travel to Austin, Texas, he made sure he timed his exit right around the time Adam Schiff was all over live TV questioning Gordon Sondland, who is the United States Ambassador to the European Union.
News networks broke away from the impeachment hearing to go to Trump live as he spoke to reporters outside the White House. Trump referred to Sondland’s testimony as the ambassador testified to the House Intelligence Committee.
“That means it’s all over,” Trump said to reporters, adding he “turned off the television” after he heard Sondland’s recollection of a call he had with the president about Ukraine.
Sondland testified Trump told him twice that he wanted nothing from Ukraine, other than President Zelensky to do the right thing.
“It was a very short and abrupt conversation that he had with me,” Trump said.
Trump recalled Sondland repeatedly asked him what he wanted from Ukraine.
“I want nothing, I said it twice,” Trump said, adding again he said he wanted “no quid pro quo.”
Trump scolded reporters at the White House, saying, “If you weren’t fake news, you would cover it properly.”
Indeed, during hearings where we only get second and third-hand conversations as evidence, Sondland actually spoke directly to Trump and the president told him emphatically he wanted “nothing” from Ukraine in return for the military aid. This is direct evidence which Schiff and his media cohorts really are trying to spin.
The only part of Sondland’s testimony that Trump disputed was Sondland’s assertion that the president was in a bad mood during the call.
“I’m always in a good mood, I don’t know what that is,” he said.
Trump again distanced himself from Sondland, saying he only spoke to him a few times.
“I don’t know him very well,” Trump said, recalling that Sondland supported other Republicans in the 2016 presidential primary. “I have not spoken to him much. This is not a man I know well. He seems like a nice guy though.”
President @realDonaldTrump delivers a statement on the sham impeachment process: pic.twitter.com/XBoUNfRV4a
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) November 20, 2019
Trump repeated his claim on Twitter, after leaving the White House.
“Impeachment Witch Hunt is now OVER! Ambassador Sondland asks U.S. President (me): ‘What do you want from Ukraine? I keep hearing all these different ideas & theories. What do you want? It was a very abrupt conversation. He was not in a good mood. He (the President) just said, I WANT NOTHING! I WANT NOTHING! I WANT NO QUID PRO QUO! TELL PRESIDENT ZELENSKY TO DO THE RIGHT THING!’ Later, Ambassador Sondland said that I told him, ‘Good, go tell the truth!’ This Witch Hunt must end NOW. So bad for our Country!”
….”I WANT NOTHING! I WANT NOTHING! I WANT NO QUID PRO QUO! TELL PRESIDENT ZELENSKY TO DO THE RIGHT THING!” Later, Ambassador Sondland said that I told him, “Good, go tell the truth!” This Witch Hunt must end NOW. So bad for our Country!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 20, 2019
Meanwhile, conservative reporters like Sean Davis were tweeting out the truth about Gordon Sondland’s overall testimony.
“LOL at the Democrats and their media lickspittles who spent the morning trying to coronate Sondland as the newest honorary member of the Resistance. The guy is a blubbering, dissembling mess of a witness. And Democrats think this guy is their impeachment white knight? Hilarious,” posted Davis.
LOL at the Democrats and their media lickspittles who spent the morning trying to coronate Sondland as the newest honorary member of the Resistance. The guy is a blubbering, dissembling mess of a witness. And Democrats think this guy is their impeachment white knight? Hilarious.
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) November 20, 2019
Rep. Steve Scalise reminded Americans of Sondland’s testimony:
Q: Did @realDonaldTrump ever tell you personally about any pre-conditions for anything?
Sondland: No.
Q: Any pre-conditions for the aid to be released?
Sondland: No.
Q: Any pre-conditions for a White House meeting?
Sondland: Personally, No.
Q: Did @realDonaldTrump ever tell you personally about any pre-conditions for anything?
Sondland: No.
Q: Any pre-conditions for the aid to be released?
Sondland: No.
Q: Any pre-conditions for a White House meeting?
Sondland: Personally, No. pic.twitter.com/adl8qbBNNd
— Steve Scalise (@SteveScalise) November 20, 2019
Rep. Jim Jordan grilled Sondland and brought out the truth.
Jordan: “POTUS said…I want Zelensky to do exactly what he campaigned on & when that became clear to us, guess what? They got the money. God bless America. It all worked out. This is crazy what we’re going through because the facts are so darn clear.”
.@Jim_Jordan w/ a $$ closing ➡️
"POTUS said…I want Zelensky to do exactly what he campaigned on & when that became clear to us, guess what? They got the money. God bless America. It all worked out.
This is crazy what we’re going through because the facts are so darn clear." pic.twitter.com/NPwLhT51Wj
— Rep Andy Biggs (@RepAndyBiggsAZ) November 20, 2019
Adam Schiff ends the Sondland hearing by giving a long speech claiming “Trump got caught.” Got caught doing what? Let’s be perfectly clear. Even if the president held up military aid for the reason Ukraine was corrupt and he wanted an investigation into the 2016 election interference and the Bidens, that is not a crime. It’s not an impeachable offense.
What is becoming very clear is Trump hates giving away hard-earned taxpayer dollars in foreign aid. We elected him because of this belief. It also is true Ukraine was named the third most corrupt country in the world. Only after the president was advised by these witnesses, namely Kurt Volker and Tim Morrison, that the new Ukraine president was “the real deal” and was dedicated to stopping corruption, the aid was released.
That is also the same time Trump told Sondland, “I want nothing. No quid pro quo.” Sondland said he added, “I just want him to do the right thing.” Trump only wanted President Zelensky to “do the right thing” and clean up the corruption in Ukraine.
Trump hates giving away American’s money. The Democrats are spinning these facts now in evidence and want you to believe Trump was demanding something that rises to bribery. The only thing President Trump is guilty of: going against the deep state bureaucrats who love to give away our money to foreign countries. And for that, he should not be impeached but should be re-elected.
