Counter-impeachment strategy comes into focus
Posted Sep 27, 2019 3:17 PM
John T. Bennett
... “Sounding more and more like the so-called Whistleblower isn’t a Whistleblower at all. In addition, all second hand information that proved to be so inaccurate that there may not have even been somebody else, a leaker or spy, feeding it to him or her?” Trump tweeted Friday, adding: “A partisan operative?”
The president’s assessment, however, ignores the fact that the call details in the whistleblower’s complaint very closely match what is laid out in a White House-prepared summary of the Zelenskiy conversation ...
By Friday morning, the president’s surrogates were also executing the discredit-all-involved strategy.
“Look at the phraseology, the endnotes and the footnotes,” Jay Sekulow, one of Trump’s personal attorneys, said during an appearance on Fox & Friends. “This wasn’t drafted by this individual. This was written by a law firm” ...
https://www.rollcall.com/news/sick-man-trump-teams-counter-impeachment-strategy-comes-focus
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