Faced With Firsthand Witnesses to Trump’s Ukraine Phone Call, Republicans Attack the Messenger

The latest Republican pivot in defense of Trump: complaining about an Army uniform.

On Tuesday morning, the House Intelligence Committee’s impeachment inquiry took on the most critical piece of evidence against President Donald Trump—the July 25 phone call in which he asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to do him a “favor” and investigate Joe and Hunter Biden.

“What are the sources of whistleblower’s information?” Nunes asked. “Who else did he talk to, and was the whistleblower prohibited by law from receiving or conveying any of that information?” This is where the president’s defenders pounced. Earlier in the day, the Federalist ran an article titled “Vindman Just Admitted To Leaking To The Anti-Trump Whistleblower.” The president’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr.,The logic behind the accusation didn’t really work: Even if the whistleblower did draw on Vindman’s comments, directly or indirectly through another source, to write the complaint, that doesn’t mean Vindman would have known they did it.

“He claimed it was need-to-know, but how would we know that?” Biggs said. “Did he follow all of the procedures? Was it in a SCIF? How did it take place? How did this communication take place?”

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