After three years of Donald Trump laying waste to almost every norm in American politics, the process to remove him started in a comparatively genteel manner
Photo: SAUL LOEB/Getty Images “It’s not as outlandish as it could be.” Ambassador Bill Taylor’s description of the Trump administration’s backchannels to the Ukraine could have just as easily applied to the first day of the impeachment hearings itself.
Louie Gohmert, a strident Trump defender from East Texas, griped about the process from the front row seat he staked out nearly an hour before the hearing started. The nine-term congressman described the witnesses as “gossipmongers and people who don’t have direct evidence but feel like it is worth spreading hearsay to bring down a president.”
Testimony came from Ambassador Bill Taylor, the top American diplomat in Ukraine and George Kent, a senior State Department official who oversees Ukraine policy. After the openings from Kent and Taylor the hearing was divided into two parts. Both Schiff and his Republican counterpart Devin Nunes had 45 minutes for questioning which they could use for themselves or assign to a staff attorney. They mostly yielded their time.
Once the hearing moved to the five-minute rounds of questions from the 20 remaining members of the committee, 12 Democrat and eight Republican, it did get a little more outlandish but the televised histrionics rarely exceeded the norms of C-Span. Republican John Ratcliffe of Texas tried to get Taylor to identify an impeachable offense that Trump had committed, while Democrat Eric Swalwell of California followed up on a presidential tweet to ask the witnesses if they were “never Trumpers.
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