.MaddowBlog: On impeachment, Republicans’ incompetence does Pres. Trump no favors.
Close video The Rachel Maddow Show, 11/21/19, 9:05 PM ET Impeachment witness rips 'domestic political errand' for Trump Rachel Maddow shares video of testimony by former National Security Council official Fiona Hill at a Donald Trump impeachment inquiry hearing in which she describes a split in the team tasked with dealing with Ukraine between those working on a Trump share tweet email save Embed Donald Trump took a few moments during a White House cabinet meeting this week to reflect...
As this phase of the impeachment process comes to an apparent end, it’s worth pausing to appreciate the degree to which the president had this backwards. Indeed, Trump shouldn’t be praising his Republican allies; he should be scolding them for their incompetence. During the committee’s public hearing on Thursday, though, a series of interlocutors from the Republican side demonstrated that they were not particularly familiar with the testimony that had already been given – or, at least, that they were willing to present that past testimony in a way that changed its significance. As any lawyer knows, you’re not supposed to cross-examine a witness by asking questions you don’t know the answer to.
Even the witnesses House Republicans specifically called to testify ended up providing information that made matters quite a bit worse for Donald Trump.
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