Remember when Gordon Sondland delivered devastating testimony to the House Intelligence Committee telling lawmakers that every action he took regarding Ukraine was at the direction of Donald Trump, and that the president and his personal lawyer unquestionably wanted a quid pro quo deal with the Eastern European nation? You should, because it literally just happened this morning. You probably also wouldn‘t soon forget it because it was really, really bad for anyone hoping not to be impeached, to the point that Ken Starr, late of the Clinton investigation and recent of Fox News contributor, opined that the testimony could be a “game changer” that could inspire Republican senators to force the president to resign. But what did the big man in the White House think of it all? The answer may surprise you, if you were somehow unaware of the fact that the president is clinically delusional.

Speaking to reporters, Trump started off the only way he knows how: by insisting that he doesn’t really even know this Sondland character. “I don’t know him very well. I have not spoken to him much,” he said. “This is not a man I know well. He seems like a nice guy, though.”

Then Trump got down to business, claiming that the fact Sondland told lawmakers that the president said “I want nothing” from Ukraine and “I want no quid pro quo” in a September phone call means he’s innocent. “That means it’s all over,” Trump said, adding: “This is the final word from the president of the United States. I want nothing.” The problem for ole Donny-boy, though, is that while he may have said he didn’t want anything from Ukraine, Sondland and other witnesses have testified that they knew that not to be the case. Obviously, that means either Sondland or the numerous career diplomats are lying, or a man who told 13,435 “falsehoods” between January 20, 2017, and October 9, 2019 is perhaps not telling the truth. Truly, it’s a tough nut to crack! Incidentally, Trump started claiming to only have the purest of intentions re: the Ukrainians when it became clear his campaign to force them to investigate his political rival was about to go public:

Obviously, that hasn’t stopped Trump from proclaiming that this an open-and-shut case, and the impeachment inquiry over:

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