It played on just about EVERY TV and channel….
The media verdict seems to be that the Republicans are fighting an uphill battle….
And new damaging facts against Trump and others seem to be tumbling out in real time….
The House of Representatives opened historic impeachment hearings on Wednesday and took startling new testimony from a senior American diplomat that further implicated President Trump in a campaign to pressure Ukraine to publicly commit to investigating former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.
In a nationally televised hearing from a stately committee room across from the Capitol, William B. Taylor Jr., the top American diplomat in Ukraine, brought to life Democrats’ allegations that Mr. Trump had abused his office by trying to enlist a foreign power to help him in an election.
Mr. Taylor testified to the House Intelligence Committee that he learned only recently of a July telephone call overheard by one of his aides in which the president was preoccupied with Ukraine’s willingness to say it would look into Mr. Biden and work by his son Hunter Biden for a Ukrainian energy firm. Immediately afterward, Mr. Taylor said, the aide had been informed that Mr. Trump cared more about “investigations of Biden” than he did about Ukraine.
A powerful witness for Democrats, Mr. Taylor appeared as Congress embarked on the third set of presidential impeachment hearings in modern times. Forceful, detailed and unflappable in the face of Republican taunts, the veteran diplomat delivered a remarkable rebuke of the actions taken by the president and his allies inside and outside of the government who placed Mr. Trump’s political objectives at the center of American policy toward Ukraine.
Eric Trump went seriously off message:
https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2019/11/14/eric-trump-says-sen-mitt/
Sounds to me like Eric is campaigning to have Mitt vote “No” on conviction.
Is he that bright?
Maybe this is a Hail Mary to get adopted into the Romney Family.
No he’s a dumbass really ?
Even a dumbass can recite a few lines though.
Greg Sargent
@ThePlumLineGS
The bottom line on all this is that every single Republican in that hearing today is absolutely fine with Trump using the power of his office to press a foreign leader to help him absolve Russia of sabotaging the 2016 election and help him rig the next one on his behalf as well.
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Ezra Klein
@ezraklein
I’m a broken record on this, but the impeachment process isn’t revealing what Trump did. We already knew that. It’s revealing what the Republican Party will accept, and even defend.
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Rick Wilson
@TheRickWilson
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2h
An American solider and family are under government protection.
Because they’re under attack.
Not by terrorists.
Not by foreign enemies.
They’re under attack by the President of the United States.