now i know you are just being stupid on purpose!! good one!! yeah, sondland was a political appointee of trump whose only qualification was he was a huge GOP fundraiser, gave a million dollars for Trump's inauguration....and the other real state dept. diplomats mentioned clearly knew the military aid had been frozen by Trump and was being used as the carrot, and the stick, to get Zelensky to allow Rudy and lapdog Barr to "assist" in digging up dirt on the bidens like trump talked about in the phone call, that zelensky agreed to!! why do you think the comments about military aid being tied to political election reasons were even in those texts if they had not been told to make sure zelensky and other Ukraine diplomats knew what was on the line? they just made it up? they just guessed Trump had frozen that dough before he made the phone call?