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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat will Gordon Sondland do? What will he say? What are his options & their probable consequences?
Predictions, anyone?
Triloon
(506 posts)Just my indelicate opinion.
shraby
(21,946 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)to Trump and others that are slowly being connected to crimes.
His best bet is to save his own ass and reduce his coming prison sentence as much as possible.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)And otherwise plead the fifth.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)This is going to be a Salvage Operation for Sondland and his Hotel Company. Watch and see.
Turbineguy
(37,324 posts)He has some small moral advantage due to his lack of qualification to be a foreign service officer. He can plead he trusted trump and didn't expect him to break the law.
He'll have to release himself from trump and realize that the million bucks that he paid for his job is a total loss.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)could handle any type of Boycott by the Public. And when it comes to the Traveling Public,Company Associations are important to the Millennial population as well as the Educated older Travelers.
Am aware of one of his Properties,it sits in a Seasonal Tourist Town will the Fall and Winter months being damn Dead. Plus,it is a super high Maintenance operation .
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)The brand is dead with his name attached to it.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)NCLefty
(3,678 posts)lastlib
(23,224 posts)And he's out a million bucks to not salvage it with......Clearly he will rue the day he ever tried to kiss up to Shitgibbon.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)It is dead with his name attached to it, regardless of what he does when testifying.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Properties. The one I am some what aware of,had it as a Business Client years back,sad to say,it is so under utilized and with the right Marketing,could be one hell of a winner.
pbmus
(12,422 posts)Grasswire2
(13,569 posts)He has no other option if he wants to stay out of prison.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Enough people witnessed him do some things that he is screwed. Plus, if he keeps his mouth shut, you better bet that Rudi is going to load Sondland up with crimes to save his own ass. Sondland appears to have been aware of what Rudi was doing and aided those efforts.
MFGsunny
(2,356 posts)... so THAT will probably continue.
His options are waaaaaay limited ::
1) he had to know all the REGULAR channel's protocol;
2) his willing participation in the IRREGULAR channel sure as shooting needs 'splaining!
'Splaining probably goes to either MF45 made us do it possibly as another quid pro quo demand; or plays dumb mouse - if "all the president's men" aka 3 Amigos+ were doing it - and they KNOW how this foreign stuff works - plus some were lawyers it must have been ok, I was just an efficient helper.
mercuryblues
(14,531 posts)I'll tell the truth, you don't prosecute me. Then spill his guts.
Poiuyt
(18,123 posts)I don't think he wants to go to prison for trump.
crickets
(25,969 posts)lastlib
(23,224 posts)Have a sudden refresh of memory about 7/26--oh, yeah, now I remember: tRump told me the whole plan, and this is it: (insert details here).
Or have a sandwich, courtesy of Apparat-Chik-Fil-A....
kairos12
(12,858 posts)I don't recall that conversationx1000.
PJMcK
(22,035 posts)There are so many witnesses to Sondland's behavior.
If he claims to forget, he could be setting himself up for more legal peril.
Sondland is an ass. I'm glad he's in this position.
NCLefty
(3,678 posts)ooky
(8,922 posts)Pay him a bribe for the most comfortable cell, because he may be in it for a while.
NanceGreggs
(27,814 posts)... act the ignorant fool who was easily duped, plead that he thought everything he did was legal and aboveboard because it was at the direction of the "pResident" - and hope for the best.