If Gordon Sondland was in the wrong, then someone should have told him. That is, essentially, the half-baked defense the U.S. Ambassador to the European Union offered during his testimony before Congress on Wednesday.

Sondland was one of the “three Stooges” involved in cooking up a Ukrainian “drug deal,” according to House Democrats. Along with Rudy Giuliani and former special envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker, Sondland facilitated meetings between Trump’s diplomatic back channel and Ukrainian officials, the result is not just one, but two explicit quids pro quo, Sondland admitted.