Impeachment Today: Eight More Witnesses Set To Testify This Week
UPDATE: David Holmes, the embassy official who overheard Ambassador Sondland’s call with President Trump, will testify publicly on Thursday alongside Fiona Hill.
Having run out of insults, distortions, and threats Republicans are switching over to “the nothing to see here” defense. In other words, what Trump did is no big deal, and certainly not the basis for an impeachment trial.
If you're not caught up on what happened during Week One of public testimony before the House Intelligence Committee, let me summarize...
- Of those who were willing to testify under oath, ALL offered evidence that Trump committed an impeachable offense.
- Of those who say Trump did NOT commit an impeachable offense, none were willing to testify under oath.
...That’s it.
The President responded to an invitation to testify from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, by saying he’d strongly consider written testimony.
Of course, he couldn’t say such a thing without tossing in a few insults:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1196425928768929792?s=20
The odds of the President testifying are only slightly lower than the chance he’ll release his tax returns this week.
CNN reports this morning that a lawyer for the House of Representatives told a federal judge about an ongoing investigation on whether President Donald Trump lied to special counsel Robert Mueller in written answers he provided in the Russia investigation.
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Here’s this week’s Impeachment Hearing Schedule, via Political Charge:
To prepare for this week's impeachment hearings, here is who is scheduled to testify. Clicking on the witness' name will take you to an article that gives some context as to what they'll testify about, and a link to their full written testimony from their closed-door hearing.
Tuesday, November 19
Jennifer Williams, State Department official and adviser to Vice President Mike Pence
Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, Eastern European expert on the National Security Council
Kurt Volker, former US special representative to Ukraine
Tim Morrison, former NSC staffer
Wednesday, November 20
Gordon Sondland, US ambassador to the European Union
Laura Cooper, Pentagon official (her closed-door testimony was stormed by Matt Gaetz and 30 more Republicans)
David Hale, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (3rd ranking official in State Department)
Thursday, November 21
Fiona Hill, former NSC senior director for Russian and Eurasian affairs
David Holmes, a Kyiv-based State Department aide, told the House lawmakers leading the impeachment inquiry on Friday about overhearing a July call between President Donald Trump and Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland, in which they discussed their efforts to pressure Ukraine into investigating Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.
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Saturday Night Live responded to the "hearings are boring" line of crapola being pushed by assorted pompous jerks:
https://youtu.be/cbXdOLttnF8
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Fox News is now going back in time to save Nixon:
https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1196474081828376576?s=20
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