Hold on. Something doesn't add up.

[intrepidity]

Apparently, Sondland neglected to mention his follow-up call with Trump, the one overheard by Taylor's aid, to the House.

This suggests that phone calls with Trump are so easily made as to be forgettable.

Trump claims to barely know Sondland.

How is it that someone who is barely known by the President can so easily have non-memorable calls with him?

Someone is lying.

[Iwasthere]

1. And he takes the call at 3:00 Fucking AM

And he claims he doesn't know hi.?

[Qutzupalotl]

2. And he has the president's personal cell phone number?

[crickets]

6. *ding!* That was my first thought. nt

[iloveObama12]

3. Also!!!

Why hasn't Mike Pompeo's name been brought up???

[klook]

4. Somebody who "donated" $1 million to Trump's "inauguration" committee

...yyyyyeah, Trump has no idea who he is.

[catrose]

5. As Robert Heinlein noted in Double Star

The protagonist is an out-of-work actor who takes on the job of impersonating a sick political leader (for All the Best Reasons), and he's introduced to the "Farley Files," a box of index cards with facts about all the people he's likely to meet, so that he can say to Charles B Constituent, "Chuck! How's Maureen and the kids? Did Charlie Jr make it into Harvard? I recommended him very strongly." An aide tells him, "It's what Mr. Leader would like to remember about everyone, if only he could."

But when the actor has to meet the Emperor of All, the Farley File is practically blank. He concludes that the leader doesn't know the Emperor well, hasn't met him often. That turns out to be wrong, and the Emperor outs him immediately. The actor realizes that the Farley Files are for people lower in status. The leader didn't need to write down things about the Emperor, because there was no chance of ever forgetting their interactions.

I doubt if Trump remembers anybody (except for Putin & the like), but it's hard to believe that Sondland wouldn't remember calls from the pResident.

[NCLefty]

7. Spoiler alert: They're all lying, just as much as they possibly can.

[BuffaloJackalope]

8. bingo

[UniteFightBack]

9. It's more like Someones are lying. Plural. nt