Trump's impeachment trial will be a sham. Here's how to blow up his lies.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/11/25/trumps-impeachment-trial-will-be-sham-heres-how-blow-up-his-lies/?fbclid=IwAR22Rs3kATQLup3y1s9welrBdhJaCjOsaUp_WLY7PqgoOsrz49hWHwzm6oA

By Greg Sargent
Opinion writer
November 25, 2019 at 6:09 a.m. PST

President Trump’s coming impeachment trial in the Senate will be awash in Russian propaganda. Literally.

Senate Republicans are planning to use the trial to promote the conspiracy theory that Ukraine, not Russia, interfered in the 2016 election, in collusion with Democrats. They will do this even though intelligence officials have privately warned those same Republicans that this has been a central trope in Russian disinformation efforts for years.

But there may be an easy way to blow up this strategy, which will be absolutely central to Trump’s defense. Indeed, there may be an easy way to show that Republicans privately possess extensive concrete information that undermines this theory — yet continue to push it anyway.

In an ugly preview of what’s to come, Sen. John Neely Kennedy (R-La.) on Sunday brushed off our intelligence services’ hard conclusion that Russia sabotaged the 2016 election on Trump’s behalf. “It could also be Ukraine,” Kennedy shrugged. “I’m not saying that I know one way or the other.”

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1. Well, if you don't know one way or the other, why not keep your big mouth shut?