Running commentary on yesterday’s impeachment hearing

Yesterday, I posted a running commentary on Twitter while watching the Yovanovitch hearing.

This is what I posted, in text form because there’s no good way to embed 25 tweets from a thread.  I’ll expand abbreviations, because tweets don’t allow for more than 240 characters, and add some interjections here and there:

1) Just started watching the next testimony on C-Span….Skipping past Nunes’ Nunesense…..

2) And the GOP is doing their best to turn this into a clown show and act surprised when Schiff shuts them down.

3) My birdies approve of Yovanovitch’s voice.

4) Ever notice how Trump keeps saying he’s allowed to do things–but not whether they’re morally correct?

5) There’s so much corruption in the GOP–from local to national–that there’s no way I can see myself voting for a Republican again for the rest of my life–without some major housecleaning.

6) Beginning to wonder if the GOP strategy is to say that everything except the July 25 call itself is irrelevant–making the quid pro quo the be-all end-all. But that’s not the case at all.

7) Um–Rep Stewart, it has been PROVEN! [Russian collusion] It’s not ridiculous–It’s FACT! And yes, there was collusion. Did you not notice [Roger] Stone got convicted today?

[Also note that Stewart merely asked if Yovanovitch had any information regarding Trump’s criminal activity.  Just because SHE has none, doesn’t mean he’s innocent of all charges.  It only means that SHE has none.  Yet he twisted it into proving Trump is innocent of all charges.  He also asked if Trump *accepted* a bribe, not if he *offered* one, yet twisted her answer into meaning that Trump is innocent of bribery.  Just shows the mind game the GOP establishment has been playing on the American people.]

[To “The American people know this is nonsense. The American people know this is unfair”: ]
8) The American people know that Rep Stewart is full of ??

9) The GOP keeps trying to bring in their conspiracy theory ??but Schiff keeps shutting them down and they get whiny complainey.

10) And Quigley brings in some levity, while pointing out that things didn’t end all hunky-dory making everything that happened before to the ambassador okay.

11) Yovanovitch’s response to [Sondland’s suggestion of] praising Trump via tweet to keep her job: that’s ?? (yeah, I’m having fun with emojis, lol)

12) uh-oh Stefanik again with more conspiracy ??

13) Geez….The GOP keeps insisting on bringing in the whistleblower. Those are TWO MONTH OLD articles [in which Schiff spoke of bringing in the whistleblower to Congress]. Things have changed: ie, now the whistleblower’s life is at stake because Trump put a target on his head. And the GOP is trying to give Trump the gun.

14) The whistleblower IS NO LONGER RELEVANT. You have the many witnesses proving what he said. WHEN I REPORTED MY EX-FRIENDS FOR CHILD ABUSE, NOBODY CONTACTED ME TO BACK IT UP. THEY DID THEIR OWN INVESTIGATION ON THE FACTS & LEFT ME OUT OF IT. That’s how it works.

15) The only abuse of power is coming from the frickin’ GOP.

[Rep Jordan complained that four transcripts have not yet been released to the public for the American people to see:]
16) And, you know what, Jordan, the American people could really use the unredacted Mueller Report.

[Jordan complained with faux outrage that Ukrainians complained about Trump while he was a candidate, and that Yovanovitch said nothing to them about it.  She responded, “I think from my point of view, that doesn’t — that doesn’t create a Ukrainian government strategy to interfere in our elections.  So I would just say that, you know, U.S. politicians will often criticize policies of foreign — foreign counterparts, even perhaps during their elections. You know, this happens in politics and I think that it doesn’t necessarily constitute interference.”]

17) To Jordan’s questions: So officials of other countries aren’t allowed opinions, especially for a candidate [not elected yet]?

18) So nobody in Ukraine was supposed to prefer one candidate over another, especially where their own interests were concerned?

19) So if I say it’s stupid to vote in Boris Johnson, or for Brexit, am I now “interfering” with Britain’s elections?

20) So Jordan expects that the ambassador from a land of FREE SPEECH should tell Ukrainians WHAT THEY SHOULD THINK?

21) Near the end, some key points: There was a 1-month gap between ambassadors to Ukraine [Yovanovitch and then Taylor]. During that time, Trump tells Sondland and others to talk to Rudy about Ukraine. Parnas & Fruman [“Lev and Igor”] tried to open a natural gas company in Ukraine; at noon today, we hear that feds are investigating Rudy for planning to profit from that natural gas company.

22)

[To Nunes saying that this impeachment hearing “is an embarrassment”: ]
23) Yes, Nunes, you are an embarrassment.

24) I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if others stood to benefit from the Parnas and Fruman natural gas company: Nunes, Ratcliffe, Jordan, Stefanik, McConnell, Graham, etc. It would explain a lot.

After this, I posted:

Funny thing is I saw a guy in that audience who reminded me of Richard, except he has blond hair–and he was applauding.  It made me wonder if it was him.  Except it seems to me Richard wouldn’t be applauding, unless he’s actually broken free of the Trump worship on the right, like Amash did.

The transcript for the hearing is now out here.

 

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