Republicans Barely Questioned the Witnesses. They Went for Delay Tactics, Half-Truths......
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Republicans Barely Questioned the Witnesses. They Went for Delay Tactics, Half-Truths, and Utter Bullshit.
"Mr. Butterfield, are you aware of the installation of any listening devices in the Oval Office of the president?"
WASHINGTON—Portent hung from the chandeliers in the elegant chambers of the House Ways and Means Committee. The first days of public hearings into the impeachment of El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago made the air in the room heavy and thick. Gravitas has been in short supply since 2016, when the country decided to lose its mind and, out of a strain of inexplicable dark humor, to be governed by a vulgar talking yam. Sooner or later, the laughter stops and the freaks run wild and hijack the whole show, and turn a show with freaks into a freak show.
Make no mistake. If the hearings on Tuesday were a criminal trial, the jury wouldn’t have been out long enough to order lunch. The President* of the United States ran a cheap-assed, third-rate shakedown of the new president of an embattled ally for the purpose of enlisting the new president of the embattled ally in the ratfcking of the 2020 election. Both of those are crimes. Putting them together is a third crime.
The Republican defense was aimed at defending Fox News talking points, or giving your drunk uncle arguments to raise over the cranberry salad in a couple of weeks, or defending the right of the president* to make policy based on whatever conspiracy theory most recently got snagged on the stalagmites of his mind. It certainly wasn’t based on defending the president*’s actions as regards the transaction he tried to force on poor Volodymyr Zelensky. Because, as was obvious from every second of the minority’s participation in Tuesday’s hearings, there simply is no defense for what the president* did.
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