https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/08/us/politics/trump-vindman-sondland-fired.html
Republican Senators Tried to Stop Trump From Firing Impeachment Witness
A handful of senators reached out to the White House to warn the president not to dismiss Gordon D. Sondland, the ambassador to the European Union who testified in the House hearings. But Mr. Trump went ahead anyway.
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Among the Republicans who warned the White House was Senator Susan Collins of Maine, who after voting to acquit Mr. Trump said she thought he had learned a lesson. Others included Senators Thom Tillis of North Carolina, Martha McSally of Arizona and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin. The White House did not respond to requests for comment on Saturday but a senior administration official confirmed the senators’ outreach on behalf of Mr. Sondland, a donor to Mr. Tillis and other Republicans.
https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/results?name=Gordon+Sondland
One can dream
McSally and Collins? Oh, puh-leeeze!
A handful of senators reached out to the White House to warn the president not to dismiss Gordon D. Sondland, the ambassador to the European Union who testified in the House hearings. But Mr. Trump went ahead anyway.”””
IMO, all these Senators need to broaden their view of Sondland.
IF a person has risen to the post of Ambassador...
IF a person in that position is dealing with leaders of other countries and representing the USA & the President....
NONE of such people should EVER be testifying in any court or committee based upon 2nd 3rd 4tth hand information or ASSUMING that they have ANY accurate information. He should have said from the beginning that he DID NOT KNOW ANYTHING FOR SURE based on FIRST HAND info. He has zero credibility, IMO. He hung himself.
His type of testimony wouldn’t be allowed by Judge Judy-—it was ALL hearsay. NOT fact-—JUST HEARSAY.
Congress was trying to remove a President who got over 63 Million votes. They can hate him all they want, but they are showing their hatred for every single voter who put Trump into the Oval Office. Sondland became a target when he spoke over & over & over again about ‘things he heard’...”Everyone was in the loop”....
WHO IS EVERYONE??? That appears to be ‘elite speak’ for ‘only those who count’ knew whatever.
I wouldn’t wish anyone to be even in traffic court up against testimony such as Sondland continued throwing out as ‘meat on the bone’.
He deserved to be moved out of that job & I suspect that he is only the front of the pack. There will be others—and there SHOULD be others.
Trump needs to remove ANY & ALL Obama holdovers. Cannot leave any foxes inside the hen house.