Republicans Are Excusing a Criminal Conspiracy By Frank Rich
'In yesterdays impeachment testimony, Ambassador Gordon Sondland revised his earlier statements, saying that he followed the presidents orders and summing up, simply, Was there a quid pro quo?
The answer is yes. How damaging is Sondlands testimony for the Republicans defense of Trump?
If the Republicans cared about the facts or the gravity of the crime being investigated, the answer would be apocalyptically damaging. But they dont care, and they will continue to defend Trump even if those testifying under oath include an eyewitness to a criminal conspiracy hatched in the White House like Sondland, or patriots like Fiona Hill, Alexander Vindman, and Marie Yovanovitch, who not only provided irrefutable evidence of the crime but detailed the existential threat that crime poses to America.
Had Trump pulled out that (so far) proverbial gun and shot someone on Fifth Avenue, Republicans would trot out the exact same defense they have this week: The shot was fired at 2 a.m. and there were no eyewitnesses. Those nearby who claimed to have heard the shot had actually heard a car backfiring. The closed-circuit video capturing the incident is, as the president says, a hoax concocted by the same Fake News outlets that manufactured the Access Hollywood video. The confession released by the White House was perfect evidence of Trumps innocence. Election records show that the cops who arrived on the scene were registered Democrats and therefore part of a deep-state conspiracy to frame the president for a crime he didnt commit but that the Democrats did. The victim was not killed and will make a complete recovery, so no crime was committed anyway. And even if Trump had killed the young woman he gunned down, the argument advanced by Trumps lawyer last month would apply: The person who serves as president, while in office, enjoys absolute immunity from criminal process of any kind. Next case!'>>>
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Unclephil
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(23,693 posts)or at least not like the one they have deliver to fat nixon daily ...
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catbyte
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(60,031 posts)a big flaw in our species is showing
Zorro
(15,753 posts)That's what the Republican Party has been for the past 50 years.