The democrats opened the tRump impeachment hearings with perhaps the best witnesses they have; William Taylor, a decorated Vietnam vet and George Kent a lifetime 2nd generation diplomat with impeccable credentials. They might have been named Frick and Frack for all the respect the republicans on the intelligence committee showed them.
While they were smart enough not to impugn their personal reputations, the republicans rejected their sworn testimony and instead insisted they were second hand witnesses with little knowledge of the real story, which was obviously all about Crowdstrike, Ukraine's intervention in the 2016 elections and Hunter Biden's corruption. Whatever.
What they were unprepared for was Taylor's testimony that one of his assistants overheard a telephone call between Gordon Sundland and tRump the day after the infamous call in which our president* demanded investigations into the "scandals" involving Joe Biden. Taylor's assistant said he heard tRump demanding to know if the Ukrainian president was on board with the investigations. Sundland told him he was.
As Nicholas Kristoff noted in a column in today's NYT, if the manager of a Social Security office stopped payment of a widow's check and told her if she wanted it back she had to give him her husband's rare coin collection he would be subject to firing and a criminal investigation. Why should the chief executive of our country be any different?
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