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Gordon Sondland Is an Equal-Opportunity Flunky

The ambassador’s definition of “acting on good faith” meant following orders, even orders he found morally troubling. When Gordon Sondland testified at the House impeachment hearings on November 20, having “refreshed” his memory and recalled several incriminating facts that had escaped him the first time around, the ambassador was at pains to explain that …

Biden reformed Ukraine. Trump Made Ukraine Corrupt Again.

Republicans are pretending Trump’s agenda in Ukraine was opposing corruption, which is the literal opposite of reality. Louisiana senator John Kennedy offered one of the Republican Party’s emerging defenses of President Trump’s extortion scheme. “Here are the two possible scenarios,” he said on Face the Nation yesterday. “Number one, the president asked …