8:00 pm:
Sean Davis breaks down the testimony. He believes that Vindman is the leaker. Also that Vindman lied about not knowing who the so-called whistleblower is.
Sean Davis: ‘Vindman is the leaker’ and he ‘lied last month’ https://t.co/kjxntwyouv via @twitchyteam— Greg Meadows (@BootsandOilBlog) November 20, 2019
9:30 am:
To get up to speed on this takes so much time. Not to mention that it is pretty boring stuff.
Yep. I read through some more of Morrison's testimony this morning. After a while, I noted that testimony was already underway, so I switched off a bit on that.
Col. Vindman is testifying now. There's a transcript of his previous testimony, but I have not read it. Nor am I interested in watching it this morning.
Even with my lack of interest, it is probably more than average. A recent poll showed that 20 percent or so are interested in this and are following it.
A lot of this revolves around the secrecy of the so-called whistleblower. Just guessing here that Vindman was the whistleblower's connection. It is why so many think that Ciarmarella is the whistleblower. Both these guys are Democrat partisans.
As mentioned previously, the President was within the scope of the aid authorization to make sure that there was no corruption in connection to the aid, so the delay is not that big of a deal. Basically, the quid pro quo was supposed to be about getting a public statement out of the Ukrainian president. The allegation is that the funds were being held up because of that. The Democrats want it to be about Biden, and that it was a bribe to Zelensky for an announcement of an investigation?
Oh, and the Dems want to claim that Trump is intimidating witnesses. Exaggerating in the extreme, I'd say.
I can see the general lack of interest in this. The reason I follow it at all is I am suspicious of a faction in the GOP who probably would like an excuse to end Trump's presidency. If it weren't for them, the Dems would have no hope for this.
If they got to Ciarmarella off the top, they would save a lot more time. The reason they don't is that it ruins the Democrat narrative. Ciarmarella is partisan, Vindman is partisan, and Schiff is partisan.
I would be incredulous that even the never-Trumpers in the GOP would find any of this a good enough excuse to dump Trump. It is clearly a partisan Democrat deal. Even worse, they are hindering a legitimate investigation that involves some of their own people in the Democrat party. Not a good thing for any GOP'er to join, I'd say.
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