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Best and worst takeaways from yesterday’s Alice in Wonderland hearings

DrJohn


 

Yesterday’s hearings were a complete waste of time, but even so there were highlights and lots of low lights. Some left the mouth agape at the pure stupidity. So here we go.



Best opening of the day- Devin Nunes

The GOP stood fast to four facts that could not be ignored.

Rep. Mike Quigley proved himself to be a complete ass:

I heard Ambassador Bill Taylor say something that should have ended the hearings on the spot

Jim Jordan hammered this one home

Even CNN acknowledged that “that’s a problem”

I always enjoy John Ratcliffe:

The most disingenuous statement came from Adam Schiff, who is already on record as lying about his “whistleblower” Eric Ciaramella:

What got scant attention is how much Donald Trump has helped Ukraine

One notable and little-reported conclusion emerging from the House Democratic impeachment proceedings is a consensus among some foreign policy professionals that President Trump’s Ukraine policy has been an improvement over President Barack Obama’s.

Ukraine was an occasionally hot issue in the 2016 campaign for all the wrong reasons. At the Republican convention, a false headline in the Washington Post, “Trump campaign guts GOP’s anti-Russia stance on Ukraine,” gave birth to a false narrative that candidate Trump, desperate to appease Vladimir Putin, would undermine U.S. support for Ukraine in the face of Russian aggression.

Then Trump became president, and his administration enacted a new policy that not only continued a broad range of assistance to Ukraine but also expanded that aid to include the provision of Javelin anti-tank missiles — the so-called “lethal aid” that the Obama administration had declined to provide.

The Trump aid program has significantly helped Ukraine defend itself against Russia, according to three career foreign policy officials whose impeachment investigation testimony has been released in recent days: William Taylor, the highest-ranking American diplomat in Ukraine; Kurt Volker, the former U.S. special envoy for Ukraine; and Marie Yovanovitch, the former ambassador to Ukraine who was recalled by Trump in May.

Start with Taylor. Questioned by Republican lawyer Steve Castor, Taylor called Trump administration policy a “substantial improvement” over what came before.

“Once you joined the administration in Kiev, were you happy with the package of aid?” asked Castor.

“I was happy that we were providing aid,” Taylor said. “It could always be more. But I was glad if it was coming. I would’ve been very unhappy if it didn’t come.”

“But the Trump administration had a package of aid to the Ukraine?”

“Yes.”

“Including lethal defensive weapons?”

“Yes.”

“Financial assistance?”

“I was very happy about that.”

“And was that an improvement [over] years prior?”

“It was.”

“Was it a substantial improvement?”

“It was a substantial improvement, in that this administration provided Javelin anti-tank weapons,” Taylor explained. The shoulder-fired missiles, he said, “successfully deter Russians from trying to grab more territory.”

“They were also a very strong political message that said that Americans were willing to provide more than blankets,” Taylor continued. “I mean, that was the previous. And these weapons are serious weapons. They kill Russian tanks. So these were serious weapons. It was a demonstration that we support Ukraine.”

These are the Alice in Wonderland hearings:  “Sentence first, verdict afterwards.” The twit known as AOC can’t keep her mouth shut. She made very clear that these events are purely political in nature and are happening only to prevent Donald Trump’s reelection:

I doubt Trump will be impeached. This is an effort to cause him death by innuendo. If Trump is impeached, Adam Schiff can expect to be called, along with Ciaramella. They would be deposed separately and then have to testify before the Senate and explain their collusion.

That’s more than even Schiff’s ego can handle.

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