With Stone and Cohen both in jail for lying to Congress, Sondland's best legal approach is to tell the truth (whatever that may be) or else plead the Fifth.
I will be curious to see if Trump rage tweets during the testimony. He is flying to Austin this morning and therefore has a lot of tv-watching time on the plane until early/mid afternoon.
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Q "Why do you like Duke, you didn't even go there." A "Because my art school didn't have a basketball team."
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Yup, and I think it will be a huge issue in 2020. The cost of health care, and how it is delivered, impacts every family. This may be less of an issue with the young and bullet-proof voter (ah, I remember those days) but it doesn't take too much aging or too many loved ones to see the real pocketbook and life-impacting touch of the issue.
Listening live right now it sounds like Sondland's testimony is going to open the door for plausible deniability by Trump. In other words, even though everyone could see by action and words that Trump and Giuliani absolutely wanted/pushed for Ukraine to investigate Biden, no one is going to say they heard the words come out of Trump's mouth, "I want... concerning Ukraine."
This is why I stated upthread that unless there's a smoking gun audio/video that explicitly has Trump saying something definitive about Ukraine and Biden it's going to come down to he said/she said. And that will not move the needle. It will take hearing Trump himself say something directly to get his supporters to even consider turning.
I tend to agree with you, but do wonder if the real Dem strategy is now more oriented toward making Trump and the GOP more broadly look as bad as possible heading into the 2020 elections. I've thought from the start that Dems were overplaying their hand if they were truly seeking an ultimate impeachment and removal from office. And nothing yet has changed that view. But Trump's biggest allies in the House and right-wing media may be overplaying theirs even more by insisting on his total innocence, as I do think that could have meaningful repercussions looking at the total electoral map for the coming cycle.
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Just to point out that some of us don't follow every stray subject, I did not immediately post a weekend news report discussing the identity of "Anonymous." One candidate, seriously suggested, was Andrew Giuliani, a press assistant at the White House. Surely you all remember Andrew -- co-reciting the oath at his Dad's first inauguration as mayor of NYC; receiving a golf scholarship to Duke with (I thought) scant credentials; getting removed from the team as a junior (I believe) as detrimental to the team and not playing well enough to carry that baggage; suing Duke for ruining his PGA prospects (discussed differently on Wiki, but ...); having his case dismissed by the courts; graduating from Duke. He's been in the White House since March 2017and is said to be a frequent golf partner of El Presidente.
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'When I got on the bus for my first road game at Duke, I saw that every player was carrying textbooks or laptops. I coached in the SEC for 25 years, and I had never seen that before, not even once.' - David Cutcliffe to Duke alumni in Washington, DC, June 2013
Happy 77th Birthday today, Joe Biden.
Wayne Messam has suspended his bid for President. I don't recall him ever registering higher than 1% in any poll so he won't exactly be missed. I am unsure where his dozens of supporters will now look... perhaps Joe Sestack?
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