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Except Trump never said he wanted anything other than Ukraine to fight corruption at any time, ever, to anyone. We have the transcripts
originally posted by: Sillyolme
a reply to: OccamsRazor04
Do what he promised... what was being requested.
originally posted by: Sillyolme
a reply to: OccamsRazor04
He told Rudy..... Rudy told them...
Boss-Consigliere-Soldiers
originally posted by: Sookiechacha
a reply to: OccamsRazor04
Except Trump never said he wanted anything other than Ukraine to fight corruption at any time, ever, to anyone. We have the transcripts
Except he wanted a favor though, in response to Zelensky's announcement of his intent to purchase weapons, it's in the "transcript". That favor, that Trump wanted, was to investigate the Bidens and find the mythical Crowdstrike server, supposedly hidden somewhere in Ukraine.
Trump never mentions corruption in the "transcript".
Quote it.
President Zelensky: …
I would also like to thank you for your great support in the area of defense. We are ready to continue to cooperate for the next steps, specifically we are almost ready to buy more Javelins from the United States for defense purposes.
The President: I would like you to do us a favor though because our country has been through a lot and Ukraine knows a lot about it. I would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with Ukraine, they say Crowdstrike… I guess you have one of your wealthy people… The server, they say Ukraine has it.
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The other thing, there’s a lot of talk about Biden’s son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great. Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it. It sounds horrible to me.
originally posted by: RalagaNarHallas
a reply to: Grambler
yeah i figured it would be a good article to present but seems to not be getting too much traction other then from you, perhaps a good issue to cover on your youtube shows you do that are pretty good if i dont say so my self
So what was offered?
originally posted by: andy06shake
Sondlands testimony painted the same picture as the rest of the witnesses so far.
Except he wanted a favor though, in response to Zelensky's announcement of his intent to purchase weapons, it's in the "transcript".
Big deal. Trump asked for a favor... favors are given freely with no expectation of anything in return.
President Donald Trump’s defenders had little to work with on Wednesday, as U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland delivered explosive testimony to the House Intelligence Committee.
The ambassador told the impeachment inquiry that he had told Ukrainians that if they wanted $391 million in military aid released to them, they would have to announce investigations that Trump was demanding they announce.
Top officials in the White House were all aware of what was unfolding in the scheme, Sondland said, and the orders for at least one of the quid pro quo deals came directly from Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani.
“After you testified, Chairman [Adam] Schiff ran out and gave a press conference and said he gets to impeach the president of the United States because of your testimony and if you pull up CNN today, right now, their banner says ‘Sondland ties Trump to withholding aid,'” Turner said. “Is that your testimony today, Ambassador Sondland? That you have evidence that Donald Trump tied the investigations to the aid? Because I don’t think you’re saying that.”
“I’ve said repeatedly Congressman, I was presuming,” Sondland replied.
“No one on this planet told you that President Trump was tying aid to investigations, yes or no?”
“Yes,” Sondland responded.
“So, you really have no testimony today that ties President Trump to a scheme to withhold aid from Ukraine in exchange for these investigations?” Turner pressed.
“Other than my own presumption,” Sondland replied.
Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, acknowledged Thursday that President Donald Trump held up a military-aid package to Ukraine in part because he wanted the Ukrainian government to investigate unfounded conspiracy theories related to the 2016 election.
originally posted by: OccamsRazor04
Every single first hand witness, every last one, has said there was no quid-pro-quo.
originally posted by: Sookiechacha
a reply to: Boadicea
It doesn't matter if he said he was "presuming". The Ukrainians got the message! Do you understand that?
Do you think that Ambassador Sondland pulled that little plan out of his ass?