A Quick and Easy Debunking of Republicans' Impeachment Hearing Talking Points
The first day of public impeachment hearings reinforced what the previous month of closed-door depositions all but confirmed: that President Trump attempted to extort Ukraine into interfering in the 2020 election. Witnesses George Kent, the deputy assistant secretary of state, and Bill Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, laid out the case in exacting detail, while also revealing additional damning information, including that Trump was more concerned with Ukraine investigating Biden than the 2016 election.
Nevertheless, Republicans have claimed victory.
Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas) called the hearing “boring.” Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) said people in the audience were “yawning.” Eric Trump described it on Twitter as a “snoozefest.” His father, the president, tweeted a quote from Robert Ray on Fox Business that the hearing was too dense for “regular people” to understand.
The attention-span insults were tame compared to the response from Fox News’s primetime lineup. Sean Hannity said “the Republicans had a great day all the way around” and that Democrats looked “dumb, bad, stupid, and shallow.” One of his guests, Trump favorite Mark Levin, said Kent and Taylor looked like “two homeless guys.” On Tucker Carlson Tonight, contributor Christian Whiton said they “looked like people who sat by themselves at recess.” On the Ingraham Angle, guest Raymond Arroyo was flabbergasted by George Kent’s “water silo.”
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