So this is why Trump doesn't want officials to testify

[mcar]

So this is why Trump doesn’t want officials to testify
By Dana Milbank
Columnist
November 4, 2019 at 7:31 p.m. EST

...If this is a sign of what’s to come, Republicans will soon regret forcing Democrats to make impeachment proceedings public. Over 10 hours, the transcript shows, they stumbled about in search of a counter-narrative to her damning account.

Yovanovitch detailed a Hollywood-ready tale about how Giuliani and two of his now-indicted goons hijacked U.S. foreign policy as part of a clownish consortium that also included Sean Hannity and a corrupt Ukrainian prosecutor. Their mission: to oust the tough-on-corruption U.S. ambassador who threatened to frustrate Giuliani’s plans to get Ukraine to come up with compromising material on Joe Biden and the Democratic Party.
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Confronted with this Keystone Kops way of governing, Republicans didn’t really attempt to defend Trump’s actions. Instead, they pursued one conspiracy theory after another involving the Bidens, George Soros, the Clinton Foundation, Hillary Clinton, the Obama administration, deep state social-media “tracking” and mishandling classified information. They ate up a good chunk of time merely complaining that Yovanovitch’s opening statement had been made public (which under the rules was allowed)....

She testified that wary Ukrainian officials knew as early as January or February that Giuliani was seeking damaging information on the Bidens and the Democrats — perhaps in exchange for Trump’s endorsement of the then-president’s reelection....

They suggested she was part of a diplomatic conspiracy to monitor Trump allies such as Laura Ingraham, Lou Dobbs and Sebastian Gorka. They probed for damaging details on the Bidens (“Were you aware of just how much money Hunter Biden was getting paid by Burisma?”) and for ways to damage her credibility (“What was the closest that you’ve worked with Vice President Biden?”). Maybe Ukraine really did try to help Hillary Clinton in 2016, they posited. Maybe Ukrainian officials were “trying to sabotage Trump.” They asked if she ever said anything that might have led somebody to “infer a negative connotation regarding” Trump.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/11/04/so-this-is-why-trump-doesnt-want-officials-testify/

[tblue37]

1. K&R for visibility. nt

[ramen]

2. MORE POPCORN

there are too many straws for these clowns to grasp at, but nowhere near enough to keep them afloat..

[NoMoreRepugs]

3. The Rethug clown car is the size of a battleship.

[sprinkleeninow]

4. The repugnicant clown ocean liner. Yah! eom

[NoMoreRepugs]

5. Skipper and Gilligan at the controls??

[sprinkleeninow]

6. Would be laughable and amusing if not so disturbing. eom

[crickets]

7. And these are just transcripts, yeeha. nt

[kimbutgar]

8. They are sounding shrill tonight over on fox.

[mcar]

11. Once again, they have shot themselves in the foot

Whining and crying on TV that the hearings have to be public. It gets voted on and they start whining and crying on TV that the transcripts have to be released.

Now they are and they are still whining and crying - they got nothing else!

[crazytown]

9. Musical interlude

See how they fly like Lucy in the Sky,
See how they run,
I'm crying

(all you need is love)

[tableturner]

10. I thought he didn't want them to testify because he is a guilty SOB.

[BSdetect]

12. All these exposures and yet Comey blurted out about friggin emails?

Where are the vigilant CIA and FBI people?

This is simple astounding.