Unbelievable. Just like Schiff, and his ability to directly look at the camera and outright make shit up - the media seems to be winging it on opinion alone. Who needs to be reporting any facts to the American people?
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Nets Cheer Sondland ‘Directly Implicating’ Trump...Then Admit He Didn’t
During an 11:00 a.m. ET hour break in Wednesday’s impeachment hearing, all three broadcast networks eagerly proclaimed the U.S. Ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland, was “directly implicating” President Trump in a “quid pro quo” with Ukraine. However, just minutes later, those same networks admitted that Sondland never heard any such thing directly from the President.
“Well, Gordon Sondland, clearly the man of the hour there, as we are halfway through the questioning,” Nightly News anchor Lester Holt declared during NBC’s special coverage. He further claimed that Sondland “dropped a lot of bombshells” and “Is now implicating the President directly.” He emphasized that Sondland “had direct communications with the President.”
In almost identical fashion, during CBS’s special coverage, Evening News anchor Norah O’Donnell gushed over the “stunning testimony” from “life-long Republican” Sondland “essentially directly implicating the President of the United States, his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, and also saying that the Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and others...” She added that he “essentially said this was done at the direct expression of the President.”
“There you have it. The most consequential testimony yet in this impeachment investigation....and you can count the headlines,” Good Morning America co-host George Stephanopoulos announced during ABC’s special coverage. He told viewers Sondland was “implicating not only the President, at his direction, not only Rudy Giuliani, the President’s lawyer, but also the Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the Vice President Mike Pence, the National Security Advisor John Bolton, and others on the National Security Council.”
The only problem with those pronouncements? They weren’t true.
Less than five minutes after Holt claimed Sondland was “directly implicating” the President, NBC News legal analyst and former Obama administration official Neal Katyal quietly acknowledged: “Sondland never said that Trump directly ordered him to withhold the aid or to withhold the White House meeting. It was done through someone, a conduit, Giuliani.”
Rest - https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb...admit-he-didnt
And then you have MSNBC. Who knows, they probably shot the news yesterday.They will lie, omit things like the Dems are doing, dramatize.... it's "almost" as if they are trying to tell a story, to dictate things to voters. Seriously, today changed everything?
MSNBCers: Sondland Took a ‘Blow Torch’ to Trump Defense
MSNBC hosts Brian Williams and Nicolle Wallace, on Wednesday, proclaimed Ambassador Gordon Sondland’s testimony was a “blow torch” to Donald Trump’s defense.
After the first part of the hearing was over, Williams came on the air to call it a “blow torch” and “stunning testimony.” His co-host Wallace added that Sondland was “taking a blow torch to every defense Donald Trump has offered....today changed everything.”
MSNBC contributor Jason Johnson, later on in the segment, claimed the administration operated like the “mob” and concluded “I think this is a really rough day for the Republicans.”BRIAN WILLIAMS: Well, you heard the man, the chairman says a five or ten minute break, giving us a chance to introduce our friends and have our first discussion. As part of our live coverage of the blow torch testimony this morning from Gordon Sondland, an owner of a chain of hotels from the Pacific Northwest. Wrote a $1 million check to the inauguration and turns out to be the guy who has offered the most stunning testimony.
NICOLLE WALLACE: He has been compared to everything this morning, Brian, from John Dean to as you said, taking a blow torch to every defense Donald Trump has offered. We don’t say this very often anymore because it’s rarely true. But I think today changed everything. I think Gordon Sondland’s testimony today changed everything.
Rest - https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb...-trump-defense
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