MSNBC Host Stunned After Impeachment Witness Endorses Trump
MSNBC host Ari Melber was shocked this week when Gordon Sondland, a former Trump administration official who testified against Trump during his first impeachment, announced he would be backing the former president due to the Harris-Biden administration’s “many attacks on democracy.”
“This is so striking,” Melber said, mouth agape. “You said it was a ‘no for me’ after that, after January 6. And here we are right now and you’re saying it’s a yes for you?”
“It’s a yes, for me. It is an absolute yes for me. That is how badly the Biden-Harris team have prosecuted their job,” Sondland replied.
Sondland is a high-profile Republican donor and a former ambassador to the European Union. In 2019, his impeachment testimony became crucial to Democrats’ prosecution of then-President Trump. Sondland repeatedly claimed a “quid pro quo” between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to exchange military aid for investigating the Bidens’ overseas business dealings.
“I’ve now lived four years under the Biden-Harris policies, and I have to say that those policies are not only becoming an existential threat to our country’s way of life, but to our allies as well,” Sondland said
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MSNBC’s Ari Melber loses it after the anti-Trump impeachment witness he invited on his show said he was voting for Trump because of how bad things are
Melber: You said it was a no from me after J6. Now you say it’s a yes?
Sondland: It’s an absolute yespic.twitter.com/aMx1x5jfER
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) October 2, 2024
Melber, unsatisfied with Sonland’s answer, shouted at him and asked how he could endorse Trump after January 6th, saying, “That kind of attack on democracy is bigger than any policy.”
“I am seeing so many attacks on democracy that eclipse January 6th,” Sondland replied. “Policy matters greatly. Because policy translates into our way of life and the way our country operates.”
“I live in a bucolic city of Portland, Oregon, which has been destroyed by those policies. Absolutely decimated. Businesses are suffering. My own business is suffering solely for political reasons, and it’s all fixable and they don’t want to fix it.” ~ Gordon Sondland on MSNBC
Sondland played a key role in Trump’s first impeachment trial, with his testimony being used in the lead statement of impeachment manager Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA). Despite testifying against Trump, Sondland refused to resign from his post in the administration. Two days after Trump’s acquittal by the Senate in February 2020, Sondland was fired by Trump.
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The best part about this clip is Peter Navarro’s smirk about half way through.
Even never Trumpers are coming home. pic.twitter.com/ny1mcENF3o
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) October 3, 2024
Also on the MSNBC panel was Peter Navarro, a former White House adviser to Trump. Last January, Navarro was sentenced to four months in federal prison for contempt of Congress after refusing to testify about Trump to the Democratic-led January 6th Committee. Navarro described his decision as simply taking “a principled position.”
“I’m glad I did that, and if my case, as it reaches the Supreme Court, establishes the rules about executive privilege and the constitution and separation of powers, it was well worth it,” Navarro told Melber.
“Serving with Donald Trump, I saved a lot of lives during the pandemic, and I created a lot of jobs the two years before that, and I couldn’t be more proud of serving this country.”
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