an instrument in washington domestic reelection politics as ambassador sondland said. that david holmes testified under oath i m surprised that it was so specific and concrete. it was a demand that president zelensky personally commit to a specific investigation of president trump s political rival on cable news, and the evidence goes on and on and on. of the president s effort to use the enormous powers of his office to betray the national interests and cheat in the election in 2020 and to use hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money to attempt to achieve that objective. our founders talked about abuse of power because they recognize that the power of the presidency was enormous. there was a danger that a president would use that power not for the public good, but for his own personal or political advantage. so they created articles of impeachment to give a final check against that abuse of power. no one s here because we want to do this. we re here because we have no choice.
evidence. there was no contemporaneous explanation given for the president s decision to with hold military aid that had bipartisan support from congress. that didn t come until after the articles of impeachment were filed. and the unified response from the state department and white house witnesses is that the aid should have been released. given these facts the only logical explanation as ambassador sondland concluded is that the aid was being used to leverage pressure on president zelensky. at the end of the day the evidence is overwhelming and the disputable. president trump s personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, pushed ukraine to investigate his political rival and a debunked conspiracy theory. his efforts had nothing to do and were taken with the
and ambassador sondland testified he was never asked to go to the european union and ask for more money. and remember mr. sondland is president trump s ambassador to the european union. what was ambassador sondland told to communicate to ukraine by president trump? he was told to say that resumption of aid would likely not occur unless president zen swr sky announced the investigations. and what were those investigations? 2016 election interference and burisma, meaning the bidens. so finally left with nothing else to argue in defense of the president, the republicans have raised one more thing, which is that president trump had a legitimate reason, somehow a legitimate reason to investigate vice president biden. but once again that makes no sense. it makes no sense because the facts are that that investigation of that issue
highly irregular ukraine policy channel led by rudy giuliani that included sondland, volker and rick perry. that contributings es to the abf power, it highlights the abuse of power. but it also is obstruction of congress. why why won t the president allow him to speak? what is he afraid of? think about john bolton. fiona hill testified that bolton told her to notify nsc counsel about the rogue effort he said i m not a part of whatever drug deal sondland and mulvaney are cooking up. both in fact called giuliani a hand grenade who s going to blow everybody up. that s the abuse of power. obstruction of congress is clear. why won t he let him testify? what s he hiding? and lieutenant colonel vendman couldn t believe what he heard on the call and now eisenberg
c, corrupting our elections, the integrity of electoral system. the sources i talk to say it s critical that the american people under how unique this is. this is not bill clinton and monica lewinsky in the oval office. is this an abuse of power. you saw barry burke preempt any republican attempt to dispute this case on the facts, which by the way we didn t see them do but he disassembled this, this hearsay argument i ll tell you right now what firsthand accounts arew starting with dad holmes theth embassy staffer overhearing trump loudly on the cell phone, consummating the deal right after sondland came outon of a private meeting with andrei yermak, yes, mr. trump they will do it for you, they will do anything for you. it s stunning.