.MaddowBlog: White House balks at participating in this week’s impeachment hearing.
As the congressional impeachment inquiry shifts this week to the House Judiciary Committee, this appears to be the moment Donald Trump and his team have been waiting for. With the House Intelligence Committee having completed hearings as part of a lengthy fact-finding process, the Judiciary panel offers the president and his lawyers an opportunity to begin presenting a defense.
In a letter to committee chairman Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., White House Counsel Pat Cipollone called the hearing, which will explore the “historical and constitutional basis of impeachment,” unfair. Of course, Republicans have harangued that the process has been illegitimate and partisan because, in its preliminary stages, Team Trump wasn’t able to testify or present a defense. Now that the president and his attorneys have been invited to participate directly in the process, they’ve effectively decided to boycott?
The Republican complaints about process continue to collapse, in large part because the party seems reluctant to take “yes” for an answer. Initially, GOP officials said the impeachment process was unfair because the House didn’t hold a floor vote on the inquiry. After the floor vote, Republicans said the process was unfair because there were no public hearings.
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