'It was a week of ceaseless “bombshells.” But like a Looney Tunes character blackened by a blast of dynamite, the president’s detachment from our reality enables him to shrug off such explosions, and move on to yet another harebrained scheme.'
In Gord we trust? Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images It is theoretically possible that the impeachment process will produce a week of testimony more damning than the one that we just witnessed. Some obscure NSC staffer could come forward with a secret recording of the president telling his Ukrainian counterpart, “I, Donald J.
Gordon Sondland did most of the kindling. During his appearance before the Intelligence Committee Wednesday, the E.U. ambassador earned himself a first-ballot induction into the snitching Hall of Fame. In his initial closed-door testimony, Sondland had threaded the needle between protecting his boss and covering his ass.
“Well, all right,” a Republican advocate might reply. “The president did intend to extort Ukraine into conducting investigations into Hunter Biden’s former employer. But who’s to say that he did so to advance his personal interests, rather than America’s? Both Sondland and former U.S. special envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker testified that they did not realize Trump’s goal in engineering an investigation of Burisima was to damage Joe Biden.
The most memorable rebuttal to the notion that Donald Trump’s quid pro quo was born of good intentions, however, came from Fiona Hill, the erstwhile top Russia expert on the National Security Council. Hill’s poise, English coal-country accent, and quiet charisma made much of her testimony look and sound like a future cinematic adaptation of itself. Under questioning from the House Republicans’ attorney Steve Castor, Hill reflected on her repeated run-ins with Sondland.
Alas, on Wednesday deputy assistant secretary of Defense Laura Cooper presented the committee with an email dated July 25, in which a State Department staffer informs her that the Ukrainian embassy is concerned about the status of its security assistance.
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