Another one of Trump’s own people just decided to sell him out to the House impeachment inquiry
The thing about dominoes in an unraveling criminal conspiracy is that they tend to fall upward. Donald Trump’s Ukraine scandal is unraveling in real time, and it’s prompting Trump’s own people to start selling him out to save themselves. Now a surprising name has agreed to testify to the House impeachment inquiry.
Yesterday, in what was not a surprise development, recently resigned U.S. Envoy Kurt Volker gave several hours of reportedly cooperative testimony to the House impeachment inquiry. Volker turned over text messages which showed that State Department official Bill Taylor recognized early on that Donald Trump was trying to extort Ukraine over the 2020 election, and that he objected to it. Taylor said as much to Gordon Sondland, the U.S. Ambassador to the European Union, who then went running to Trump about it. Then today, Republican Senator Ron Johnson revealed that Sondland told him that it was indeed a quid pro quo arrangement.
This evening, CNN reported that Gordon Sondland has now agreed to testify before the House impeachment inquiry on Tuesday, October 8th. This is crucial for two reasons. First, Trump and Mike Pompeo have publicly instructed their people not to cooperate, period, and so Sondland is selling them out just by showing up at all. Second, it’s not difficult to figure out why Sondland is testifying: he’s been nailed in a criminal conspiracy, and he’d rather not go to prison when it’s all over.
This comes after Donald Trump’s Secretary of Energy Rick Perry, who is also knee deep in the Ukraine scandal, announced that he’s planning to cooperate with the impeachment probe. Perry then decided to resign from the Trump regime. Trump’s people are selling him out in real time.
