Here’s a quick rundown of Republican positions on the whistleblower complaint, from left to right
Devin Nunes came here to chew bubblegum and abet corruption. And he’s all out of bubblegum. Photo: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images Donald Trump repeatedly pressured the president of Ukraine to launch an investigation into one of his own political rivals, despite the fact that there was no evidentiary basis for such a probe. This fact is established in both the recently released phone records of Trump’s conversation with Ukranian president Volodymyr Zelensky, and a U.S.
These are not the makings of a satisfying “whodunit?” Some of the precise details of what transpired are unknown and should be uncovered. But there is no question that Trump abused the powers of his office in this instance — as he has manifestly done in many, many other instances. Nebraska senator Ben Sasse laid claim to this subtly distinctive pseudo-high-minded territory. “Republicans ought not to be rushing to circle the wagons to say there’s no there there when there’s obviously lots that’s very troubling there,” Sasse told NBC News after reviewing the complaint. “But there are also Democrats who had already decided they were going to impeach the president yesterday before they had any actual facts in front of them, and I think that’s disastrous for the public health.
“I didn’t find it concerning,” Iowa senator Chuck Grassley said of the transcript Wednesday. “There was no quid pro quo, you’d have to have that if there was going to be anything wrong.”This mode of response substitutes self-confident horserace nihilism for any engagement with the substance of the scandal:
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