WILLIAMS: The call was unusual, political, surprising. Never seen anything like it.
VINDMAN: The call was inappropriate. Never seen anything like it.
GOP: See! They don't agree! And they won't say "bribery"!
ALL ATTORNEYS: Uh, these are *fact witnesses*. That's not their role.
VINDMAN: The call was inappropriate. Never seen anything like it.
GOP: See! They don't agree! And they won't say "bribery"!
ALL ATTORNEYS: Uh, these are *fact witnesses*. That's not their role.
PS/ Every GOP defense today was a lie, a misstatement of evidence, a deliberate obfuscation, a slander, the creation of a false distinction, a misapplication of legal principles, or deceit about how due process works. America, please know this is *not* how criminal defense works.
PS2/ In a criminal defense, you have a "theory of the case." Every question develops and brings forward that theory. I've watched/listened to these hearings and have *no idea* what the GOP theory of the case here is. They're just throwing smoke grenades everywhere, like *madmen*.
PS3/ What was the GOP trying to tell America about Vindman? He's a liar? A bad soldier? A spy? A man with poor memory? No one watching these hearings could have *any* idea. Or see how any of these create a theory of the case. And that's because the Republicans don't have a clue.
PS4/ Even if you say the GOP wasn't trying to defend Trump, merely to hurl political rhetoric during an impeachment, how is it politically wise to falsely claim that a decorated American soldier somehow is disloyal to America? Who's desperately looking for *that* case to be made?
PS5/ What we saw today was a gaggle of sadly *broken* Republican men and women who are doing no more than trying pathetically to draw the attention and approval and maybe even a Twitter mention from a single career criminal they know is watching their every move. It's creepy AF.
