Fox Host Bret Baier Says Sondland’s Testimony Is ‘Very Damaging’ To GOP Talking Points

Gordon Sondland, the U.S ambassador to the European Union, arrives for testimony before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill November 20, 2019. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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Fox News anchor Bret Baier noted that Ambassador Gordon Sondland’s public testimony on Wednesday dealt a major blow to Republicans’ defense of President Donald Trump in the impeachment investigation.

“This, listen, on its face is very damaging to some of the arguments the GOP has been making,” Baier said during a brief break in the hearing. “I think it’s going to be fascinating to see in cross examination how they go.”

The Fox News anchor observed that Sondland is “cleaning up for Gordon Sondland rather than for President Trump.”

In his explosive testimony, Sondland directly tied Trump to the scheme to withhold military aid to Ukraine in an effort to strong-arm Ukraine into announcing an investigation into 2020 candidate Joe Biden.

“As a presidential appointee, I followed the directions of the President,” Gordland said in his opening statement. “We worked with Mr. Giuliani because the President directed us to do so.”

The ambassador also explicitly confirmed there was a quid pro quo between the Trump administration and Ukraine, effectively destroying Trump and his Republican allies’ refrain insisting there was absolutely no quid pro quo.

Watch Baier below:

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  1. Some of the Wingnut-sphere outfits like the National Review, they basically stopped covering the whole thing… you would think that what’s going on in the house is a procedural vote on renaming a federal building… not a peep… they must ran out excuses and just playing ostrich now.

  2. Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
    None but ourselves can free our minds
    Wo! Have no fear for atomic energy
    'Cause none of them-a can-a stop-a the time
    How long shall they kill our prophets
    While we stand aside and look?
    Yes, some say it’s just a part of it
    We’ve got to fulfill the book
    Won’t you have to sing
    These songs of freedom?
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  3. Avatar for jinnj jinnj says:

    This would be the point where an experienced politician would negotiate a resignation.
    However… Trump will somehow double down.

  4. And by 'very damaging ’ Bret means it in the sense a wooden stake through the heart is 'very damaging ’ to Count Dracula.

  5. As per LBJ’s famous Cronkite quote, if you’ve lost Fox News . . . .

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