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Our Impressions Of Trump’s Senate Trial So Far
Democrats’ rigor met by Republicans’ disdain
The Democratic impeachment managers from the House have conducted themselves remarkably well. Especially lead impeachment manager Adam Schiff (D) CA. They’ve been rigorous at backing up all their contentions with the evidence they do have, and pointing out where gaps exist that could be filled with only a small amount of political will on the part of a few Republicans. For instance, holding up copies of such heavily redacted documents from the White House budget office as to obscure all but a smattering of inconsequential words. They’ve also made good and continuous use of video clips from earlier hearings they conducted. And maybe even more powerfully from some of Trump’s in-passing statements, now mercilessly but fairly put into context.
While the House impeachment managers spent a lot of Thursday painstakingly addressing the President’s motives, and how he truly put major security arrangements in Europe in jeopardy for his own personal gain, they’re also not shying away from the name “Biden”, nor the overarching implication: that this really isn’t only about Trump and Ukraine. It’s about Trump’s gangland approach to the Presidency, of which his gang-leader style dealing with Ukraine’s new President is a mere snapshot of a pattern of untethered dirty dealing that…
