CNN obtains opening statement of witness who overheard trump call and it's Bad!

[Iwasthere]

Wow!! It's worse than we thought. trump if fu$cked! It is damning, waiting for the written version.

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1. Please provide link...

[Iwasthere]

2. Was live just now.

They're playing it again

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12. LINK HERE

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212691536

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16. Thank you!

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3. CBS is reporting this-

Staffer who overheard Trump call with Sondland testifies in closed hearing

By Grace Segers

Updated on: November 15, 2019 / 5:45 PM / CBS News


David Holmes, the aide who overheard a phone call between U.S. Ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland and President Trump, is testifying in a closed hearing with the House committees conducting the impeachment inquiry. Bill Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, testified in an open hearing before the House Intelligence Committee Wednesday that Holmes, who he only identified as a member of his staff, had informed him of the July 26 call last week.

Holmes is a counselor for political affairs at the U.S. embassy in Kiev, according to the embassy's website.

A source attending the closed hearing told CBS News that the deposition of Holmes was "very damning" for Sondland. The source said that Sondland will "either go to jail or have to turn on the president."

At the first public hearings of the impeachment inquiry, Taylor testified that a member of his staff, whom he did not name, was with Sondland at a restaurant on July 26 when the ambassador placed a call to Mr. Trump.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/staffer-who-overheard-trump-call-with-sondland-testifies-in-closed-hearing/

[BigmanPigman]

5. I thought the person was testifying on Sat

behind closed doors. This is moving along nicely.

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8. I think the 2nd person who heard that call is coming in Saturday

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9. They are moving fast! Good, I have been very, very patient

and it's driving me nuts.

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11. LOL

They only found out about this first guy on Tuesday.

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7. Holy cow

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4. CNN's article

Witness confirms diplomat Bill Taylor's testimony on Trump-Sondland call, sources say

From CNN's Jeremy Herb and Manu Raju

A US diplomat told lawmakers behind closed doors that he did overhear the July 26 phone conversation between President Trump and Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland, and that on the call Trump asked Sondland if Ukraine was going to do the investigation, according to two sources familiar with the testimony.

Sondland replied that they were going to do it, the sources said.

David Holmes, the counselor for political affairs at the US Embassy in Ukraine, was able to hear the call because Sondland held the phone away from his ear due to how loud Trump was talking, the sources said. Holmes also confirmed there were others at the table at the restaurant where he heard the call, according to the sources.

Asked about Holmes' testimony, Rep. Gerry Connolly told CNN's Wolf Blitzer that he was going to be "careful about what I just heard in closed session, but... I would say that the adverb used 'allegedly' is not accurate. It is not alleged. It happened. And it is a matter public record that Mr. Holmes heard this conversation and recognized the President's voice loud and clear."

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/impeachment-hearing-11-15-19/index.html

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6. Brick by brick

The prison walls are going up around Trump. Justice is inevitable.

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10. CNN has some opening statement excepts

2 min ago
In opening statement, diplomat details Trump phone call with Sondland

From CNN's Jeremy Herb and Manu Raju

David Holmes, the aide to diplomat Bill Taylor who overheard President Trump’s conversation with European Union ambassador Gordon Sondland, said that Sondland told the President that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky would do “anything you ask him to,” and that he confirmed the Ukrainians were going to “do the investigation."

“Sondland told Trump that Zelensky ‘loves your ass,’” Holmes said, according to a copy of his opening statement reviewed by CNN. “I then heard President Trump ask, ‘So, he’s gonna do the investigation?’ Ambassador Sondland replied that ‘He’s gonna do it,’ adding that President Zelensky will do ‘anything you ask him to.’”

Holmes explained that Sondland placed the call to Trump, and he could hear Trump because the call was so loud in the restaurant where they were with two others.

“While Ambassador Sondland’s phone was not on speakerphone, I could hear the President’s voice through the earpiece of the phone. The President’s voice was very loud and recognizable, and Ambassador Sondland held the phone away from his ear for a period of time, presumably because of the loud volume,” Holmes testified.

“Even though I did not take notes of those statements, I have a clear recollection that these statements were made,” Holmes added.

Holmes also confirmed Taylor's testimony about the President’s thoughts on Ukraine, saying he asked Sondland “if it was true that the President did not ‘give a s—t about Ukraine.'”

Holmes said Sondland responded Trump only cares about “big stuff.” When Holmes said that the Ukraine war was big, Sondland responded "'big stuff' that benefits the President, like the Biden investigation that Mr. Giuliani was pushing,” Holmes said.

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/impeachment-hearing-11-15-19/h_8bc780e4312cc3037f88cde4fd5e7481

[Kali]

13. Sondland seems to be about to experience some real problems

drumpf destroys everybody he comes in contact with. good.

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14. Copy of the whole thing was posted by CNN

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212691536

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15. K&R