Republicans are revealing their strategy in the impeachment hearing:

[DetlefK]

They continue harping how the call was perfect and that you can't impeach Trump for what was said on the call. They pretend that aaaaaaaaall the other evidence, the witness-testimony and the phone-calls, texts and emails simply don't exist.

They want to call Schiff into the witness-stand.

They want to talk about Biden.

They want to talk about the many other times Democrats have floated impeaching Trump for his many other crimes.

They do NOT want to talk about the evidence right before them.



"You can't impeach the President over eight lines in a phone-call!"

That's correct. ... Except that there is way more evidence of impeachable behavior than just this phone-call.

[guillaumeb]

1. When all of the evidence is against your client,

pound on the table.

And that is exactly what they are doing.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. Pounding the table means...

"We have no defense, so we will make shit up."

People will see tbrough that.

[Salviati]

4. Hopefully enough of them will

But too many will not.

[guillaumeb]

5. Many people will see through that, agreed. eom

[Midnight Writer]

12. If I got a dollar every time I said "People will see right through this nonsense" and was wrong...

[Initech]

3. It's pretty much the "I'm rubber you're glue" defense from kindergarten.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

10. Exactly!

[abqtommy]

6. The reTHUGS have lots of work to do covering tRUMP's ass and their own. Impeachment is

the specific cure for all their criminality.

[Maraya1969]

7. I think they would look like a bunch of idiots if Schiff took the stand.

He could run circles around them. But I understand how it is entirely inappropriate to allow him to sit.

[samnsara]

8. their 'strategy' is to vomit word salad as loudly and as fast as they can..

[lastlib]

18. Obscure, obfuscate, distort, twist, contort,,,

deny, confuse, bend, blur, muddle, jumble, garble, cloud, befog, muddy, de-clarify,..... (I think the thesaurus is running out of words......), warp, bend, buckle, deform, disfigure, misshape, mangle, gnarl, misrepresent, misstate, garble, bias, slant, doctor, alter, pervert, falsify, misreport, manipulate.........


(Feel free to add on.........)

[EndlessWire]

19. Lie...n/t

[lastlib]

21. DAYUM, how did I miss THAT one???

Thanks!!

[aggiesal]

9. What the WH released was not the transcript, it was a memorandum ...

Nixon had to release the tapes with 17 missing minutes, Pendejo45 should
have to release the actual transcript of the phone call, that they locked up.

[superpatriotman]

15. This x 1000

This needs to be repeated one million times

[bigbrother05]

17. I want to know what else is in that 'lock up'

Dollars to donuts there are tapes/transcripts of every dubious thing he has said in direct conversation with leaders, both foreign and domestic.

He is so enraptured of his own greatness that everything is captured and his minders came up with the classified server to keep him out of jail. There was clearly minimal discussion about the Zelensky call before locking it away.

"Hey Jack, got room on the rut row server for this latest call?"

[Cyrano]

11. They are aiding and abetting Putin

We are basically in another cold war and that makes the entire Republican Party traitors to the United States.

[rickford66]

13. The complete transcript of the phone call is still secret

[superpatriotman]

16. [phone]

There is no official transcript!

[thesquanderer]

14. re: "You can't impeach the President over eight lines in a phone-call!"

Sure you can. What does the number of lines have to do with anything? You might as well say you can't arrest someone for firing just a single bullet. Well, it depends what it hits.

[EndlessWire]

20. Well said. n/t