{"id":43324,"date":"2019-11-20T11:27:37","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T19:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=43324"},"modified":"2019-12-02T12:15:34","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T20:15:34","slug":"proof-trump-flagrantly-lied-about-the-quid-pro-quo-he-already-publicaly-admitted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=43324","title":{"rendered":"PROOF: Trump Flagrantly Lied About the Quid Pro Quo He Already Publicly Admitted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The testimony of Ambassador Gordon Sondland during Wednesday&#8217;s impeachment hearing is already being described as a <em>&#8220;bombshell.&#8221;<\/em> Sondland not only further incriminated Donald Trump, he also implicated senior members of Trump&#8217;s team including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Trump&#8217;s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, and even Vice-President Mike Pence. Be careful Trumpsters. The bus is running over everyone.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-chopper-talk.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump, Chopper Talk\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-43228\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/3112826998732074\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Advs\/fb-share-tn.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"20\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, perhaps the most damning comments of the morning came from Trump himself as he staged his latest performance of <em>&#8220;Chopper Talk&#8221;<\/em> on the White House lawn. Trump stopped to read from his hand-written notes a portion of what he characterized as exonerating testimony by Sondland. It was a mere two sentences, out of context, from over two hours of questioning. But Trump presented it as if it wrapped up the whole case against him. It surely did not.<\/p>\n<p>Trump was allegedly quoting Sondland&#8217;s recollection of a conversation they had. Sondland said that he asked Trump what he wanted from Ukrainian President Zelensky. And Trump says he replied that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;I say to the Ambassador in response, &#8216;I want nothing, I want nothing. I want no quid pro quo. Tell Zelensky, President Zelensky, to do the right thing.'&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xK2kKVQ8fT\">pic.twitter.com\/xK2kKVQ8fT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Hill (@thehill) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thehill\/status\/1197204947462508548\"><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>First of all, saying that <em>&#8220;I want nothing,&#8221;<\/em> immediately followed by an order to <em>&#8220;do the right thing,&#8221;<\/em> is by definition a quid pro quo whether you say so or not. Particularly when <em>&#8220;the right thing&#8221;<\/em> was previously established as a demand that Zelensky make a public statement that he would investigate the 2016 election and Burisma\/Biden, if he wanted U.S. aid. To deny the obvious conditionality of that is like denying that water is wet.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, in a previous episode of <em>&#8220;Chopper Talk,&#8221;<\/em> Trump himself told a national television audience exactly what he wanted from Zelensky:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>REPORTER: Mr. President, what exactly did you hope Zelensky would do about the Bidens after your phone call? Exactly.<\/p>\n<p>TRUMP: I would think that if they&#8217;re honest about it they&#8217;d start a major investigation into the Bidens. It&#8217;s a very simple answer. They should investigate the Bidens.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">After dodging the question yesterday, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@realDonaldTrump<\/a> says after his phone call with Pres. Zelensky, he hoped Ukraine would \u201cstart a major investigation into the Bidens.\u201d He adds: \u201cLikewise, China should start an investigation into the Bidens.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/O3bA2spazQ\">pic.twitter.com\/O3bA2spazQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FaceTheNation\/status\/1179778669302239232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 3, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The bottom line here is that Trump did seek Zelensky&#8217;s agreement to investigate the Biden&#8217;s, and he did make U.S. aid contingent on that. But now Trump wants people to believe Sondland&#8217;s out of context soundbite, rather than what he plainly said himself. If we accept Trump&#8217;s presentation of Sondland&#8217;s testimony as complete and factual, then we have to conclude that he&#8217;s calling himself a liar. Which, ironically, would be the first truthful thing that Trump has said in a very long time.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The testimony of Ambassador Gordon Sondland during Wednesday&#8217;s impeachment hearing is already being described as a &#8220;bombshell.&#8221; Sondland not only further incriminated Donald Trump, he also implicated senior members of Trump&#8217;s team including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Trump&#8217;s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, and even Vice-President Mike Pence. Be careful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,1200,8],"tags":[554,39,377,1387],"class_list":["post-43324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-politics","category-propaganda","tag-donald-trump","tag-impeach","tag-joe-biden","tag-ukraine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-chopper-talk.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-bgM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":44023,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=44023","url_meta":{"origin":43324,"position":0},"title":"Wannabe Dictator Trump&#8217;s Campaign to Persecute His Political Rivals is Revealed on Fox News","author":"Mark NC","date":"2\/9\/2020","format":false,"excerpt":"It didn't take Donald Trump long to convert his impeachment into what his diseased brain thinks is a plus for him. 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