I’m struck at the end of these hearings by how straightforward the President’s wrongdoing is. The witnesses are remarkably consistent, the documentary evidence strong (both contemporaneous and recollected), the defense basically perfunctory. You don’t often see cases this strong.
Like, the witnesses across the gamut — documents, political appointees, career officials — all point in the same direction clearly.
Plus of course there’s this: President Trump basically admitted this all at the first moment of the scandal IN THE OFFICIAL WHITE HOUSE TRANSCRIPT. And *then* his chief of staff came out and said the same thing at a televised press briefing.
