Trump's "no quid pro quo" defense is undercut by new impeachment evidence. The Wall Street journal reporting Trump loyalist, Gordon Sondland, who denied quid pro quo, is now admitting it to Congress. It comes as Speaker Pelosi announces a key vote on impeachment rules — with a plan to break Trump’s stonewall. Aired on 10/28/19.
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'Quid Pro Quo' Bombshell: Trump Ally Admits Explosive Bribe Allegation | MSNBC
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Benjamin Levine Trump will never be acquitted of these damning charges. Please stop crying.
We need to chant this at democratic debates and rallies!
It’s already been proven Beyond A Reasonable Doubt. Republicans need to stop acting like traitors and choose our country over their cult leader
John Gailey Absolutely “country before party” that’s the motto Democrats need to preach to Republicans “country before party”
Good riddance to the two-family dictatorship of bush Clinton and their puppet Obama
He isn’t their cult leader. They mostly hate him. They are protecting their positions of power. As he threatens those more and more, they will begin to turn on him.
@Toob247 Toob247 You are a moron. Neither Obama or clinton did anyting to abuse their office for personal gains. They both fixed the economy that the previous republican had destroyed. Clinton completely balanced the deficient and we had a surplus. Obama brought us from 10%+ unemployment to around 4%. Trump has only tried to undo Obamas legacy and divide our country while helping putin in any way he can
@James Pilcher the elected officials might not believe in him for the most part but some do. Trump is a cult leader and his base refuse to accept reality if not spoon fed to them by him. I do think you are right and if public sentiment for removal of office gets above 60% they will try to get him to resign or vote to remove
More importantly, how’s the construction of the Colorado border wall going?
Border wall in Colorado??? 🤣
So well 🤣
@saugeyes lol
@madduma sanka good one
not gonna lie…im so tired of all this “winning”…its too much Mr Trump…PLEASE! no more winning!!! i cant take it anymore!!!!
@Toob247 Toob247 but but but Hillary but but Obama but but but The Bushes but but but
@I love dogs I love it when the RUbots lose their main talking points. Always revert to the buts.
Frankie B 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Babba Ganoush they now have a new butt, their mayor in chief and senior cheerleader Rudy G does Butt Calls 😂😂
@Mervyn Stephens Dare I say…their new but boy?
Why is it taking so long to take down a guy who is an amoral lying law breaking clown.
@Felix Ray Well stated, Felix. I think people are extra keen to get this Narcissist out before he wreaks your country any further. Can’t say I blame them…
Because he and his lawyer Giuliani are snakes who slither out of everything that tries to catch them. But they wont have anywhere left to go soon!
Jon Lee
The orange turd has millions of cult member armed to the teeth. They love the traitor.
Because it should never be easy to overturn the “will of the people”, meaning an election. Which is why we need to not be lazy about voting by digging into the candidates and also demand more of the media than a focus on sensationalism. Trump demonstrated our laziness, he has decades of bad behavior in the news but people tuned in for the smack talking. Leadership isn’t associated with quiet competence and forethought anymore, it’s being loud and aggressive instead.
baseball fans already understood there was a quid pro quo! 😀
@Mark Haddox you need to quit trying you’re so out of touch and unrealistic. You sir are the definition of ignorant
@David Lafleche You do realize that Jesus Christ is the epitome of socialism right? He commands us to love everyone, to show mercy to the sinner, to take care of the sick, elderly, the poor and the immigrants. He commands us to live in his likeness, to spread God’s mercy and love…still not sure what bible most republicans are reading…
@Bernadette Smart you got a source for that 4 million? I tried to find one and all that came up was dozens of cases of Republicans committing voter suppression from coast to coast. Trumps approval rating has never been over 50%. The majority of Americans despise trump. That was proven at the Nationals game. Trump finally got a dose of reality. He came out of his safe space at those cult rallies he keeps doing to boost his own ego and realized the truth.
It’s very telling that Trump played a part in the death of the most dangerous terrorist in the world on Saturday to be booed in the World Series on Sunday. He’s in trouble but his voters don’t see it.
@Anthony Levell it’s very telling when trump tweeted years ago that we shouldn’t give credit to Obama for killing Bin Laden, but now all of a sudden he wants us to kiss his butt for the death of Baghdadi. Very hypocritical. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/10/27/all-times-trump-has-refused-give-obama-credit-bin-laden-raid/
Crying, screaming, trembling and whimpering on his way to the executioner.
@Benjamin Levine wages still stagnant. Poverty still high. Farmers still on welfare.
@Stray no way. I’m doing awesome 😊 God bless President Trump. Leftist globalist Dems have no evidence to do a thing to the President. Coup attempt number 2 is failing
@Russian Bot #19538532 so true. Can’t wait to see Obama and Brennan and clapper indicted for FISA fraud and spying. This coup attempt #2 is being run by the intelligence community with Schiff help. That is why the Intel committee is doing it all behind closed doors. No vote. No public confidence.
@Terry Hawkins Trump would have been worse than one of McNamaras morons.
He’s got Bible boy Lying for him as well
@Kieron Johnson they hide behind a make belief god, when they are the the god they imagine and want others to believe!
Actually, the only thing I heard was a Pence avoiding to give an answer. Pence told about *his* topics during his conversation with the Ukrainian president, ignoring to address the question what Trump could have mend in Trumps conversation with the U-president….
So, … your allegation seems unjust.
Implicitly Pence is saying a lot by dodging the question….
But imagine your comment if Pence had said; _”Yes_ _Trump_ _was_ _using_ _funds_ _allocated_ _by_ _Congress_ _to_ _force_ _the_ _Ukraine_ _to_ _help_ _him_ _with_ _his_ _reelection.”_ …
“Bible boy is stabbing his boss in the back”.
“Power hungry Bible boy is throwing the president under the bus.”
… and you probably would have had 289 likes for that as well…
Who is even worse then Trump? You and your likers.
Bible boys and girls are the best liars of them all. They usually justify their lies with… their bible.
I wish they could send them to jail for destroying our country. That’s treason really
Jon Lee 🤣🤣🤣 Bible Boy, love it. Do be careful though Mother will spank your flank, although I suspect she may warm to it and become all hot and bothered 🤣🤣🤣
Trump voters have failed America.
@Mark Haddox By voting for a broad scale compulsive liar who could not be more blatant, or more proud, about his dishonesty. The reflection on the US globally is that of an increasingly rogue country overseen by a cripplingly dishonest and financially manipulative administration.
And yes, I’ll happily admit that within every administration there are always question marks as to the way in which things are run, however never have they been more so than under Trump’s grubby little cartel made up of predominantly slimy money grabbing old men.
Remember how they kept trying to impeach Obama? Remember how they tried to impeach Clinton for a desperately serious globally threatening act rather than simply lying about an affair? And who forget how they tried to impeach George Bush, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter etc. Oh wait a minute, they didn’t did they?
Despite all of the wranglings of government over the decades only Nixon and Trump truly faced serious level impeachment. Nixon fell on his sword with at least a degree of class and dignity.
Trump possesses neither of those traits. Thus he will not fall on his sword for anyone because you the American public don’t count and you never did.
His way to power and fiscal dishonesty was simply to tell working class Americans he would help them if they’d only vote for him.
Funny how they did and still he hasn’t. Your original question was perfectly reasonable and it doesn’t even make clear if you are a Trump supporter or not, but ask yourself this.
When you wake in the morning and go out to tackle the day, your worries are no different to those of opposing political voters. We are all just trying to make life better for ourselves and our families.
How did we get to this?
Andre Stone they are the fruits of a failed education system and an FCC that has allowed pure propagandist ‘opinion’ shows to pass as fact-based news.
Democrats have been failing America for years.
the democrats hate America so much All they want to do is tax Americans and give Americas money to illegal immigrants and foreign lands.
Its shameful to see the VP avoiding answering questions. This is the man who said he was a Christian first and conservative second and a republican next.
Democrats are for 2 things…war and killing babies.
@American Pride what would the real Jesus about mom killing their own children?
@Tamie Allen Speaking of scriptures, can you tell me who was there when they found the empty tomb where Jesus was buried?
And Dennis Rader was a deacon in his church and president of his Church Council. Family man. Boy Scout volunteer whose son is an Eagle Scout. Great Dad that raised 2 children, both college educated. Oh… and a serial killer known as BTK. Being a Christian or member of any other religious organization means nothing.
Don’t tell me about your church or your religion. Show me how you treat others.
Maha Tiki Cat ooh that’s not a nice thing to say assuming you are a Christian you should turn the other butt cheek like your illustrious leader does when getting spanked.
I guess Sondland decided jail was not for him and did not want to end up with Cohen. He had a nice life before Trump pulled him into his nightmare.
He made the right choice. Doing crimes for Trump and staying loyal to him only end up with jail, being fired, having to resign or thrown under the bus. Everything Trump touches is toxic like all his business have failed.
Trump: The opposite of King Midus. Everything( Everybody) he touches turns to fecal matter.
I hope all these obstructionist are held accountable too.
I smell a False Flag coming real soon. A nice little ” Selected War” or attack on Americans is the only thing to derail this Impeachment Train. It has been done before and it worked!
Sorry but Sondland threw America under the bus when he participated in this BS scheme to put the screws to Ukraine. While he probably didn’t imagine doing that when he paid a million dollars to cosplay at being an ambassador (the way Trump cosplays at being a president) he participated nonetheless, and that’s a crime.
@Terncote That’s fair. Sondland is not a lawyer nor a diplomat and maybe a little out of his depth.
@JV I’m sure he has his little favors and such. you can’t make it that high in gov’t & be whistle clean.
my feeling is u have guys up there who get their friends’ kid a job and u have guys (or gals) up there w blood on their hands in exchange for extra cash.
How much more evidence do they need? He’s openly said he did this.
@Lemonie Lala I say it was more exhausting for some of the unfortunate folk outside of it. lol
Get all the evidence. Present an ironclad case. Present it to Republicans. Watch them vote yes or no in public. See if they are going to continue to defend IN PUBLIC and overlook trump’s crimes.
@sk8queen Will never be done. Anyway it would be regarded as “Fake news” by Trump and his followers.
@Ancel Rick The president is a corrupt traitor that committed blatant extortion. Trump literally betrayed the working class through his polices as well . Trump is the swamp. Blue 2020. Bernie 2020
@Kelby Rock So? Did you actually read my comment or are you a bot?. 😂🤣🤣
Hasn’t *everyone* admitted it already LOL?
He’s trying to be clear to avoid perjury charges for misrepresentation in his testimony to explain his text…
@Andrew S keep dreaming only one tainted is orange putin jr….
@Andrew S Are you still sniffing glue?
Andrew S Lay off the meth or crack or whatever you’re on.
@Andrew S Do you believe trump produced transcripts?, trump confessing on TV?, and mick mulvaney admitting quid pro quos happen all the time? MSNBC cant be blamed for simply broadcasting the crooks as it comes out of their mouths. You’re hard at work caping for criminals who youd have not even needed 1/10th of the evidence if Obama had done these things.
Sondland I hardly know him, he was a never Trumper blah blah blah
That fake tut-tutting laugh that Pence does is condescending AF
Whataboutyouman? He’s got cold reptile eyes 👀 ewwww ⚰️
Tut Tut Tut ,King King King . HARRRUMPH ,where were we, quite Quid and a smattering of a Quo. But less,than important
He is the uncle you are glad you never had
Telling a Narcissist ”don’t do this” is basically daring them to do it!
Exactly!
you don’t have to do much work… just let trump hang himself. Not only does trump not know right from wrong, he doesn’t know how to skirt the law.
You’re right, question trump and he tends to go about doing something more outrageous, we’ve seen that.
Repubs tomorrow: quid quo pro is not a crime
Hector Cepeda loll good one
@PBMS123 so true
It’s what diplomacy is based on.
The Republicans wanted a vote. Now they’ve got it. This should be good.
And now Trump and the Republicans are complaining about the vote🤦♂️😂😂😂
Trump: “I’ve never met that guy Trump before.”🤪
“I don’t know him, and I threw him out of my club once.”
Maybe I appear in some pictures with myself, but I take pictures with a lot of people and I do not know the guy in those pictures. You’ll have to ask my team. I have no team. I am my own team. Ask the president of Finland. Don’t ask me. Fake news are so rude. Are you talking to me? Robert DeNiro sucks. The Ukraine call was perfect. The Ukraine letter was perfect. Somebody high up, maybe the top, told me I am a very stable genius.
I’m not Donald Trump, my name is John Barron!
LMAO perfect!!!!!!
Trump: “I don’t know about that, you’d have to ask Trump”
I like Presidents that don’t get impeached.
I like them when they get re-elected in 2020…
@Toob247 Toob247 I like people who are not trumpleTRAITORFLAKES
@Steve G good luck with that
Meat, I think your post is great! I’d love little donnie to hear it! (I’d include “read” ….but he doesn’t do *that.*)