Charles Pierce: If There's a Gun Left That Isn't Smoking, I Can't Find It

[kpete]

The dominoes are stacked up and lead straight to the Oval Office now.

Earlier Friday evening, CNN’s congressional reporter Manu Raju scooped a copy of the statement that David Holmes delivered to the House Intelligence Committee in a closed session on Friday. Holmes is the aide to whom Ambassador Bill Taylor referred on Wednesday as the guy who overheard the cellphone conversation between the president* and his go-between, Ambassador Gordon Sondland, in a Ukrainian restaurant. Holmes’s statement is detailed and damning. It’s also faintly hilarious that the whole case may be broken because two old men talked too loudly on their cellphones. From CNN:

"Sondland told Trump that Zelensky 'loves your ass,' " Holmes said, according to a copy of his opening statement. "I then heard President Trump ask, 'So, he's gonna do the investigation?' Ambassador Sondland replied that 'he's gonna do it,' adding that President Zelensky will do 'anything you ask him to.’”..."Even though I did not take notes of those statements, I have a clear recollection that these statements were made," he added.

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MORE:
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a29816407/david-holmes-ukraine-testimony-gordon-sondland-trump-phone-call/

[Kid Berwyn]

1. Trump's ass is grass.

As they used to say at military school.

[tanyev]

2. Yes, but what about the smocking gun?