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    Gordon Sondland was a perfect fall guy, until he decided to tell the truth | Richard Wolffe

    The ambassador’s painfully humiliating new testimony reveals the real story behind the suspension of aid to Ukraine
    by Richard Wolffe Nov 06, 2019 3 minutes
    ‘Sondland decided to ‘review’ his initial testimony to the impeachment investigation that there was no quidding and quoing going on.’ Photograph: Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images

    In every good disaster movie, we get to meet the easily dispensable character: someone who mixes just enough stupidity with just enough mediocrity to be cannon fodder for the impending calamity.

    In the epic shipwreck of Donald Trump’s impeachment, that man is Gordon Sondland.

    Sondland first entered this feature-length catastrophe as an ironic counterpoint to the doomed buffoon who has alternately dismayed and disgusted us for the last three years.

    To Trump himself, Sondland was a Never Trumper who first globbed on to the low-energy Jeb before shifting his undying loyalty to little Marco. When neither of

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