For weeks now, I have been pushing the message on my weekly Election Wire newsletter (sign up <a href="http://lp.dailywire.com/getelectionwire/">here</a>!) that the White House&#8217;s current impeachment defense strategy is misguided. Rather than focus on the procedural and semantical debate over whether a &#8220;quid pro quo&#8221; took place on the impeachment inquiry&#8217;s underlying Jury 25th phone call between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, I have argued that it would be far preferable for the White House to <a href="https://twitter.com/josh_hammer/status/1197163856482713603?s=12">defend the underlying substance</a> of the phone call as failing to rise to the Constitution&#8217;s impeachment criteria.
Following U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland&#8217;s testimony today in front of the House Intelligence Committee, I feel vindicated. After all, Sondland&#8217;s testimony today focused <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sondland-yes-there-was-a-quid-pro-quo-for-white-house-meeting">disproportionately</a> — perhaps nearly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ambassador-sondland-strikes-at-democrats-impeachment-narrative-trump-told-me-he-wanted-no-quid-pro-quo">exclusively</a> — on the question of whether a &#8220;quid pro quo&#8221; took place when Trump broached the subject of investigating the corrupt nexus of the Bidens and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-hammer-on-tipping-point-with-liz-wheeler-the-hunter-biden-foia-bombshell">troubled Ukrainian energy company Burisma</a> in the context of doling out fresh U.S. foreign aid to Ukraine.

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