I will reiterate what I said in an earlier post: Donald Trump is pushing the conspiracy theories of his pal Vladimir Putin. Democrats Say Trump’s Ukraine Conspiracy Theories Parallel Putin’s. During Friday’s questioning of Marie Yovanovitch, the former US ambassador to Ukraine, Daniel Goldman, a top Democratic aide on the House Intelligence Committee, cited a … Read more
Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee would have you believe the Ukraine scandal was just one phone call on July 25, the call that prompted the whistleblower complaint, and despite the inspector general of the intelligence community finding that complaint an “urgent matter of concern,” Republicans do not find anything in the call readout to … Read more
The first public impeachment hearing on Wednesday went exactly as I predicted it would. Democrats approached the proceedings with a high degree of sobriety and seriousness. Republicans engaged in disruption, distraction, and disinformation in an effort to undermine the credibility of the proceedings. They only served to undermine their own credibility. The State Department experts on … Read more
Axios provides a viewer’s guide to witnesses appearing in the impeachment hearings beginning today. I am making modifications and adding links to their prior deposition testimony. A viewer’s guide to the impeachment hearings: Testifying Wednesday, November 13: Ambassador Bill Taylor: The top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine. He says it was his “clear understanding” that Trump would not release … Read more
Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee have been using their time for questioning of witnesses not to discover the facts of what actually occurred regarding Trump’s shakedown of Ukraine, but rather to pursue the “Spygate” conspiracy theory from the fever swamps of the right-wing which claims Democrats conspired with Ukrainian nationals to frame the president’s … Read more