9/10 of my Beltway guests think @realDonaldTrump is in deep trouble They cite polls. I dissent. The #KangarooCourtImpeachment is growing steadily more obviously a partisan hatchet job, and White House Counsel Cipollone letter is brilliant expose of this: nytimes.com/interactive/20…
Now, as @MZHemingway has often noted, Beltway cliques of journalists who speak with each other do not handle disagreement with conventional wisdom well, but facts are stubborn things. We have two recent precedents: Nixon and Clinton impeachments.
When the @HouseDemocrats reject basic procedural guidelines and due process protections for @realDonaldTrump --the right for @HouseGOP to subpoena witnesses and closed, secret Star Chamber hearings-- its admission by @SpeakerPelosi of weakness of her position.
Most Manhattan-Beltway media elites disagree, but few things are as deeply embedded in American public consciousness as due process, yes lefties, even for @realDonaldTrump.
