Trump’s loyalists did not seem remotely troubled by the contradiction between their attacks denouncing impeachment proceedings as a pure sham, and claims they had yielded evidence of exoneration
Republican Whip Steve Scalise Photo: C-SPAN Republicans have spent weeks calling impeachment proceedings a coup, and then a witch hunt. Confusingly, they appear to believe witch hunts are quasi-judicial proceedings run by actual witches, and accordingly circulated merchandise depicting Democrats as a coven. Then yesterday — of all days to stop talking about witches! — they made the puzzling decision to switch metaphors again, and begin likening impeachment to a Soviet show trial.
Republicans immediately seized on this statement to claim vindication. “Mr. Morrison’s testimony was very damaging to the Democrats’ narrative,” said Republican Representative of North Carolina Mark Meadows, a fervent Trump defender. “The Crooked Democrats don’t want people to know this! Thank you to Tim Morrison for your honesty,” tweeted the president.
So, after complaining for weeks that the proceedings were rigged, and Democrats somehow only leaking the damning bits, Republicans leaked the first remotely spinnable piece of testimony they could find. Almost as if this wasn’t a Soviet-style witch-hunt coup in the first place. But none of these charges is as cut-and-dried as, say, prosecuting him for shooting somebody on 5th Avenue, mainly because the president of the United States is simply a different kind of animal than the sorts of people who have been prosecuted on these charges before. For that reason, impeachment has never been about illegality per se.
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