Posted on 11/21/2019 5:39:33 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
State Department staffer David Holmes refused to promise Congress on Thursday afternoon that he would be more responsible in future with sensitive communications. The political officer for the U.S. embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, was testifying in the last public hearing of the House Intelligence Committee impeachment inquiry. He said that he had overheard a phone conversation at an outdoor restaurant between President Donald Trump and U.S. Ambassador to the E.U. Gordon Sondland in which Trump had mentioned investigations.
Though he did not take notes of that portion of the call, and had been drinking wine, Holmes said that his memory of the conversation was clear. He shared it with colleagues at the embassy, including Charge daffaires William Taylor though Taylor testified last week that he had only learned about the conversation recently.
In his closed-door deposition last week, Holmes had trouble remembering how many people he had told about the conversation. He admitted, for example, boasting to six friends on vacation about hearing President Trump on the phone call.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) could hardly believe it:
MR. JORDAN: You told friends you were sitting by an ambassador who was talking on his cell phone with the President of the United States, you told your buddies about that?
MR. HOLMES: Yeah.
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Sondland testified that it was indeed Trump.
I think Sondland likes to impress people with the fact that he can get to POTUS.
No one's disputing that the call took place or the basics of what was discussed.
The only potential disagreement is Sondland remembered discussing "Burisma" and Holmes said he heard "Biden".
Still, just how in the world do you OVERHEAR a conversation with POTUS? That doesn’t add up.
I hope this clown is happy in his job because I cannot imagine another person hiring him.
I loved how he said that he “briefed” others on what Trump and the ambassador talked about, and also what he talked about in a candid conversation with the ambassador.
I would have asked him what kinds of briefings those were and did he disclose the “powerpoints” to the Committee.
It would have been fun because the “briefings” were bar conversations and there were no formal power-points. At best this little soy boy is a gossiping little girl. At worst he is a threat to national security. I wonder what else he has taken upon himself to discuss freely.
He should be on the first plane to the Somalian consulate.
Did anyone elses Gaydar go off with this fella?
You know between her out right lying about the well document Ukrainian role in the 2016 election interference, her desperation to distract from Soros role in all this and her pathetic attempts to bleame the Russian for every issue, I beginning to think the corrupt in the Ukraine runs far far far deeper then we have yet found
Remember we spent billions in the Ukraine after the collapse of the Soviet Union buying up their weapons and “transitioning them to Democracy” under the 1st Bush and the Clintons.
Just how much US Taxpayer loot have the Democrat siphoned off from the Ukraine the last 30 years
Perhaps Mr Sondland had his phone on speaker.
Sondland would put his conversation with POTUS on a speaker? That would be grounds for firing anybody, I would think. That has to be worse than Hillary Clinton not knowing what “(c)” stood for and putting confidential information on her own server.
I still think it doesn’t add up. Nobody in their right mind would POTUS on a speaker.
I saw/heard Fiona Hill make that comment about Soros, and my jaw just dropped. Unbelievable.
What a sick SOB fop. Time to fire his ass, but him before a grand jury on the charge of unauthorized disclosure of privileged information, etc, and then hang him.
Hill is a dangerous woman to have in the US government. Anyone who protects Soros should automatically be suspended from work until a Full Field Investigation is conducted on her going back 20 years.
She sounds like a Soros puppet and is therefore dangerous to America.
Holmes was a very unappealing witness, arrogant, snide, eye-rolling. He did no favors whatsoever for Democrats no matter what his testimony. Anybody watching knew he was a total self-aggrandizing prick. His performance was right up there with Strzok’s seemingly possessed testimony.
One of the congressman pointed out to this jerk that his career was likely over because no foreign diplomats would allow him to be in the same room. Ratcliffe destroyed this guy with his first question.
After he had his head handed to him on a platter, you could see his seething arrogance while he sat there for the rest of hearing.
Is Fiona Hill Jewish?
My only objection to what you propose is your inclusion of the word “Union”.
The USA is not a Union like the EU; it’s a Constitutional Republic.
“Did anyone elses Gaydar go off with this fella?”
OhHellYeah. It was a hot topic on a thread here yesterday.
Yep!
Holmes appears to be a pajama boy and a real wimp.
The State Dept. is purportedly staffed with many gays and lesbians.
My takeaway from yesterday's hearings is that it's confirmed that there's a Deep State, and they're doing Soros' agenda of instigating war between Ukraine and Russia. Add to that, they're so damn righteous that they refuse to obey the President's foreign policy.
Isn’t Soros classified as a war criminal in Russia? She admitted that our military and foreign policy are being used by Soros and his terrorist organization to wage his war against Russia. It’s so entrenched that she and others believe the righteousness of this as a US foreign policy priority. It’ll be the end of our nation as a superpower because the thought-slaves in the US are buying into this agenda.
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