Live, televised impeachment hearings start today. As a survivor of the Watergate hearings in 1973-74, I am somewhat surprised at the notoriety of today's open sessions. My local paper plastered the information on the front page along with a "who's who" of the initial witnesses. I don't recall the media being so attentive in the 70s until Watergate transformed political culture after the Nixon tapes were revealed.
I think many people feel the tRump impeachment hearings are too partisan, with democrats saying the facts matter and republicans disputing the concept entirely. Unfortunately, the same thing happened with Watergate. There again, republicans rejected the entire premise until the actual tapes showed Nixon orchestrating the coverup of the break in at the DNC headquarters. I believe that unless or until an audio of Cheetolini demanding the Ukrainians investigate the Bidens as a prerequiste for receiving hundreds of millions of dollars of military aid is uncovered, these hearings will only harden the partisan divide.
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