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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepublican Witnesses Blow Massive Hole in GOP's Defense of Trump
Kurt Volkers testimony has complicated what was supposed to be an opportunity to amplify the GOPs impeachment counter-narrative.Sam Brodey
Erin Banco
Spencer Ackerman
Updated Nov. 19, 2019 6:46PM ET / Published Nov. 19, 2019 6:20PM ET
After weeks of decrying the impeachment process as a sham, Republicans finally got two of the witnesses they requested for testimony. But when one of them took the standthe U.S. special envoy to Ukraine, Kurt Volkerhe instead blew a massive hole in a central part of the GOPs defense of President Trump.
Just moments after the top Republican on the panel, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), used his platform to parrot the very same claims President Trump has used to justify his pressure campaign in Ukrainethat the Biden familys business involvement in a Ukrainian gas company is worth probing and that Ukraine meddled significantly in the 2016 electionVolker dismissed those items as conspiracy theories circulated by the Ukrainians.
Theyre not things we should be pursuing as part of our national security policy with Ukraine, said Volker. He also said in his opening remarks that he told fellow officials at the time he did not find it credible that Biden would have been influenced in any way by financial or personal motives in carrying out his duties as Vice President.
Three hours into the hearing, Nunes had already distanced himself from the officials his side had requested, saying instead they were Democrats witnesses and declaring that the GOP had called relevant witnesses such as Hunter Biden.
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/impeachment-hearings-republican-witnesses-blow-massive-hole-in-gops-defense-of-trump
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Republican Witnesses Blow Massive Hole in GOP's Defense of Trump (Original Post)
catbyte
Nov 2019
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PJMcK
(22,031 posts)1. The massive hole in Trump's defense?!
There is no defense of Trump.
He has publicly confessed to his Constitutional violations!
The discussion is over. Vote to impeach and remove the motherfucker.
Cha
(297,144 posts)3. Thank you, Kurt Volker!
hope trump was Shocked.