HEARINGS: Fake news alert

Nov. 21, Coeur d’Alene Press page 3, “Trump directed quid pro quo, key witness says.” “Ambassador Gordon Sondland declared to impeachment investigators Wednesday that Donald Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani explicitly sought a “quid pro quo with Ukraine…”

It appears you only quoted the first sentence.

Breitbart news, Nov. 21:

“U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland appeared to contradict himself in testimony before the House Intelligence Committee during testimony Wednesday in the fifth public hearing as part of the impeachment inquiry.

“At first, under questioning from Democratic counsel Daniel Goldman, Sondland agreed that ‘the only logical conclusion’ was that aid to Ukraine was being held up until Ukraine announced investigations that President Donald Trump had requested into the 2016 elections and into Burisma, a company tied to the Bidens.

“But then, Sondland said, ‘President Trump never told me directly that the aid was conditioned’ on the investigations; ‘I never heard from President Trump that aid was conditioned on an announcement’ of investigations; and that ‘I don’t recall President Trump ever talking to me about any security assistance, ever.’”

Notice contradictory stories! The whole and complete story presents a completely different picture. This isn’t the first time I have challenged your merely copying directly from the wire service and have presented a misleading to false picture. Incomplete stories are damaging as false/fake news.

JACK H. NOMANSON

Hayden