Fiona Hill: Sondland was engaged in a “domestic political errand,” the rest of us were engaged in foreign policy

This is unquestionably the soundbite of the day, the source of much high-fiving and merrymaking by anti-Trumpers of all stripes on political Twitter this afternoon after Hill said it. It s an elegant restatement of the central accusation: Trump and Rudy and Mulvaney and Sondland weren t interested in how Ukraine might advance American interests internationally, they were interested in how Ukraine might advance Trump s interests domestically by dumping some scandal baggage on the Democratic frontrunner for president. Today s other witness, David Holmes, claims that Sondland made basically the same point to him after his phone conversation with Trump in July. Trump was interested in Ukraine to the extent that Biden investigation might benefit him, period, Sondland allegedly said.

But so what?

via hotair.com

I’m not an expert on this area of law, but this would be my question as well. What if PDT did delay arms to Ukraine unless and until Ukraine (re)opened its investigation into Burisma and that young scamp Biden the lesser. Isn’t it within the constitutional powers of the President to advance his own sordid political interests simultaneously with those of our august Republic? Probably this will all be lost in the intricacies of multiple conflicting statutes. But I think I’m with Mick Mulvaney on this whole dust up. I.e., it happens all the time, get over it, etc.