(1/5) Today is Day #6. It’s been a second day of hearing from the President’s lawyers. A couple things stand out:
(2/5) Was surreal to see Kenneth Starr review history and precedent of impeachment. One of his points was that we have been in what he called an age of impeachment that we should leave behind. Not a lot of irony in his presentation, given his lead role in the Clinton impeachment.
(3/5) It was also surreal to have no discussion at all of the big news this weekend, that Bolton in his manuscript apparently makes it clear that the President did want an investigation into the Bidens and the 2016 election in exchange for releasing the aid.
(4/5) Makes it even more clear that we must have witnesses & documents to have fair trial. I don’t see how a member of the Senate could refuse to hear Bolton testify under oath now that we know something about what’s out there. This information will come out—why not hear it now?
(5/5) Lawyers really doubled down on Hunter Biden & went so far as to say that Obama should have been impeached, using House standard. Honestly it was bizarre. Their close was more like a preview of political ads this fall—both negative & positive. The message was not too subtle.
