As I write this, the first day of formal, out-in-public impeachment hearings has happened. What did we learn, if anything? Namely, that several sober, serious bureaucrats heard others claim they’d heard something which concerned them.
Had the witnesses actually met the President? No. Had they spoken with the President? No. Were they listeners to the phone calls in question? No. Did they know anything of their own, as opposed to others, knowledge? No.
What did they know? They knew that they’d learned from others of things which they believed to be inappropriate, if in fact they’d been accurately informed by those others. This is pretty darn weak tea, what an Italian grandmother would call quasi acqua (almost water).
Under the theory that Schiff would lead with his best witnesses, it appears we may have the makings of another Mueller report nothingburger. Time will tell, eh?
Some wag recently wrote “Joe Biden actually admitted on camera doing, as Vice President, what President Trump is accused of doing.” Biden coerced Ukrainian officials to fire a prosecutor who was investigating the firm of which Joe’s son Hunter was a director.
Biden did so by threatening to withhold U.S. aid. Trump wished to see the cancelled-at-Biden’s-insistence investigation restarted. If you don’t begin with the assumption “orange man bad,” who was more culpable?
