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2019-11-19 Home Front: Politix
US embassy official says Sondland told him Trump 'doesn't give a shi* about Ukraine'
[Washington Examiner] An official at the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine testified U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland told him President Trump "doesn’t give a shit about Ukraine" and only cared about "big stuff" benefiting his own presidency.

David Holmes, a political counselor based in Kyiv, spoke with congressional investigators behind closed doors on Nov. 15, and his 213-page interview transcript was released Monday evening.

Holmes recounted a July 26 phone call between Sondland and Trump he overheard while sitting at a restaurant in Kyiv with Sondland and two other staffers. Holmes told the House that Sondland told Trump that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky "loves your ass," and when Trump asked if Zelensky was going to do the investigation, Sondland told him "he’s going to do it" and "will do anything you ask of him."

The call took place the day after Trump’s controversial phone call with Zelensky, which sparked a whistleblower complaint. In the call, immediately after Zelensky expressed interest in purchasing anti-tank weaponry, known as Javelins, from the United States, Trump asked Zelensky "to do us a favor" by looking into a CrowdStrike conspiracy theory. The president also urged Zelensky to investigate "the other thing," referring to allegations of corruption related to Joe and Hunter Biden stemming from the younger Biden’s lucrative position on the board of Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian energy company. Trump told Zelensky to speak with Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and Attorney General William Barr.

Holmes said Sondland called Trump on his cellphone and appeared to connect through the White House switchboards. Holmes said he could overhear what Trump was saying because Trump was speaking so loudly, Sondland had to move the phone away from his ear.

Could we have a look at your cellie please? Oh, you no longer have that selector? No problem, the WH communications detachment will have a record of the call.

When asked whether he was concerned foreign actors such as the Russians may have intercepted the call, Holmes said, "It was surprising to me that he ‐ yes."
Posted by Besoeker 2019-11-19 01:25|| || Front Page|| [9 views ]  Top

#1 Foggy Bottom Never Trumpers were happier when Soetoro was approving shipments of blankets and MRE's. 'Larger picture' focused Orange Man is EVIL !
Posted by Besoeker 2019-11-19 01:36||   2019-11-19 01:36|| Front Page Top

#2 This is one of the shittiest aspects of the Shitshow: the absurd, head-spinning, up-is-down and night-is-day BS about how Trump is a Russian agent -- wait, er, I mean a Ukrainian agent.

First Russia was benign and Romney was a benighted warmonger living in the 70s. Then Russia became evil, the Fourth Reich, and Putin was Satan incarnate. Now Ukraine's president is a wicked toady of Trump-- even though, I guess, er, Ukraine's opposed to Russia and Trump supported Ukraine with Javelins and sold Patriots to Poland and pulled out of the INF Treaty and authorized our Special Forces in Syria to fire on Wagner Group/Russian soldiers... Whatever, he's evil I tell ya.

Do these shitheads have even the faintest idea as to what they're alleging?

Do they have even a single coherent, intelligent thought regarding Russia, Ukraine, Syria, Turkey?

Posted by Lex 2019-11-19 02:38||   2019-11-19 02:38|| Front Page Top

#3 213 pages of I Heard It Through the Grapevine.

I got nuttin' against Gladys Knight or the Pips, but, c'mon! 213 pages?
Posted by Bobby 2019-11-19 07:28||   2019-11-19 07:28|| Front Page Top

#4 So what?
Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-11-19 10:48||   2019-11-19 10:48|| Front Page Top

#5 Even if Trump doesn't give a sh*t about Ukraine that doesn't mean he thinks Ukraine is a sh*thole country. There is a difference.
Posted by BrujoTejano 2019-11-19 12:26||   2019-11-19 12:26|| Front Page Top

#6 Is it a requirement to care about every country Georgetown graduates care about?
Posted by 3dc 2019-11-19 16:02||   2019-11-19 16:02|| Front Page Top

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