Rut roh! Former Special Counsel DoD Ryan Goodman says Sondland has screwed the pooch BIGLY

[Leghorn21]

Former Special Counsel @DeptofDefense
Co-editor-in-chief @just_security
Chaired Professor NYU Law.
Former Chaired Professor Harvard Law.

Sondland is in deep, deep legal trouble.

On the left: Lieutenant Colonel Vindman's opening statement (corroborated by Fiona Hill's and Bill Taylor's testimony).

On the right: Sondland's opening statement.

18 USC 1001

Link to tweet

Ya slimey little gazillionaire, you!!

[madaboutharry]

1. I don't get some people.

What the fuck is wrong with this guy? Sondland must be a complete idiot. Why would he lie to Congress to protect Trump of all people? Trump is a low life degenerate who doesn’t care about anybody. This weird loyalty makes no sense. There has to be something nefarious going on for someone to act so stupidly.

[grantcart]

5. Look at Sondland's hotels. Looks like he did a fantastic job of buying distressed hotels

And bringing them back to life

Now he risks losing it all and possibly going to jail

Mind boggling

[lindysalsagal]

7. Some people learn to believe in their own self-imposed non-reality bubble.

The capacity for humans to fool themselves might have been a functioning survival mechanism over the ages, but with modern technology, it's a rather expensive tool to use. Nothing anyone says ever goes away.

[Cosmocat]

8. The intellectual rot of "conservatism"

Anything you say or do is justifiable cause " LIBERALS!!!!"

That said, apparently his lawyer knows he is in a pretty tight spot and is trying to dig him out.

[berni_mccoy]

2. Explains why Sondland was back on Capitol Hill today

Reviewing his prior testimony.

[RussellCattle]

3. If Watergate and Iran-Contra taught us nothing else....

....it's that when someone says "I do not recall", about anything of any importance, they are lying and hold the preposterous hope that saying this instead of positively denying something, "not recalling" it will be their "out".

[winstars]

4. Can someone please dig up the list of hotels Sondland owns???

[calimary]

6. The Woodlark in Portland is one of them. Provenance Hotels.

https://provenancehotels.com/

Small chain of chic and very discreet little boutique hotels.

Oregon Congressman Earl Blumenauer called for a boycott.
https://www.opb.org/news/article/gordon-sondland-hotel-boycott-blumenauer/

[flying-skeleton]

9. Sodland was smart

He didn't say, "I didn't........"
Instead, he said, "I don't recall......"

That gives him the all important....... OUT as you'd have to prove that he 'did remember but was lying' .... which in and of itself is impossible to prove !!