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Re: Ken Starr: GOP Senators Might Consider Having to Make a Trip to the White House After Sondland s Testimony GAME CHANGER

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I think what Sondland has done has exploded the obstructive silence (in mafia terms the omerta) defence that Trump has employed. Until now, he had been trying the angle that the ambassadors were low level operatives who couldn't see the big picture. And the senior people wouldn't talk.

Sondland has revealed the conversation of the senior people: he has said Trump was in charge of a shakedown that all the senior people in the administration knew about and approved of.

So now those senior people are realising that to protect themselves, they need to talk.

This is, I think, the way they do mafia cases. Work their way through the people at the bottom towards the ones at the top. In the end, you get a circular firing squad, with all the main players shooting at one another like in a Quentin Tarentino movie.

Tonight, Pence, Bolton, Mulvaney, Pompeo, Giuliani are all going to be thinking about testifying to save their skins. Trump's conspiracy is about to fall apart. In the end, all the pistols will point in his direction.


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Ken Starr: GOP Senators Might Consider Having to ‘Make a Trip’ to the White House After Sondland’s Testimony ‘GAME CHANGER’
By: clo in ALEA
Thu, 21 Nov 19 12:52 AM 		Msg. 32914 of 54959

Ken Starr: GOP Senators Might Consider Having to ‘Make a Trip’ to the White House After Sondland’s Testimony
‘GAME CHANGER’

Justin Baragona Contributor
Updated Nov. 20, 2019 11:29AM ET

Moments before Wednesday’s impeachment hearings and right after U.S. Ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland’s opening statement was released, Fox News contributor Ken Starr wondered aloud whether Sondland flipping on President Trump would cause GOP senators to push Trump to resign. “The real issue is the senators are watching,” Starr said. “Are senators going to now say in light of what we hear today, it’s going to be a long day even with the ambassador alone, in light of what we have heard, ‘We need to make a trip down to the White House’? That historic example set during the Nixon presidency. From what I’ve been able to glean I don’t think that’s going to happen. But obviously what happens today could—has the potential to be a game-changer.”

In his opening statement, Sondland claimed that Trump was seeking a quid pro quo with Ukraine in exchange for investigations into the president’s political rivals, adding that Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani was “expressing the desires” of Trump.

During a break in the hearings a few hours later, Starr was just as emphatic in his belief that this could spell bad news for Trump. Noting that “articles of impeachment are being drawn up if they haven’t already been drawn up” over Sondland’s testimony, Starr concluded by saying “this obviously has been one of those bombshell days.”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/ken-starr-suggests-on-fox-that-gop-senators-may-need-to-make-a-trip-to-white-house-after-sondland-testimony?via=newsletter&source=CSPMedition

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