Several members of Congress are asking witnesses if they described *their own conduct* as criminal — ‘did you call it “bribery” while you did it?’ — which makes no sense.
People comitting crimes rarely bust themselves by announcing them, aka confessing, in real time.
People comitting crimes rarely bust themselves by announcing them, aka confessing, in real time.
That’s generally true in normal life - to say nothing of the highly lawyered, note-covered existence of federal officials.
But this line of questioning actually points to *relevant* evidence — even if accidentally — because witnesses have testified about “shadow” and “off the books” Ukraine plotting that may have been *designed* to avoid such notes and evidence - potential consciousness of guilt.
That was an implication of the Mueller Report’s accounts of Trump’s suspicious conduct — using *private* citizens in order route around government rules.
In other words, Jeff Sessions’s Lewandowski is Bill Taylor’s Sondland.
(For illustrative purposes, not a 1:1 comparison.)
In other words, Jeff Sessions’s Lewandowski is Bill Taylor’s Sondland.
(For illustrative purposes, not a 1:1 comparison.)
