Impeachment investigators see diminishing returns on the parade of private depositions and are getting ready to make their case in public hearings
Their list of cooperative witnesses is dwindling. The ones who are showing up are increasingly just corroborating whatAnd a growing number of House impeachment investigators say the evidence is overwhelming that President Donald Trump used the power of his office to pressure Ukraine's government to open spurious investigations into his political opponents, including former Vice President Joe Biden.
Impeachment investigators now face their most consequential moment yet: the end of the closed-door fact-finding effort in favor of a campaign to persuade Americans, in full public view, that Trump deserves to be removed from office. There are several high-level White House officials Democrats would like to depose but expect to resist their demands — including acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, who all but admitted a quid pro quo on television before walking it back — as well as former national security adviser John Bolton and top National Security Council lawyer John Eisenberg.
Democrats involved in the investigation say they don’t need five, six or seven witnesses to affirm the same set of facts that Trump himself has already acknowledged, or what was provided by witnesses with first-hand knowledge. In the midst of the investigation, for example, Trump publicly urged Ukraine and China to investigate Biden — which Democrats and even some Republicans knocked as an open solicitation for foreign interference in the 2020 election.
Asked whether Congress should pursue Livingston’s role in the already-sprawling saga, Rep. Stephen Lynch , a senior member of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, said it was probably not worth the trouble.
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