.MaddowBlog: House GOP eyes new gambit to shield Trump: Find fall guys
After the U.S. House formally approved a measure to proceed with the impeachment inquiry, House Republican leaders held a press conference at which a reporter asked, “Will you all go on the record and say the president did nothing inappropriate?”This was, of course, a ridiculous posture, but more importantly, it was unsustainable. The evidence of “inappropriate” actions in Donald Trump’s Ukraine scandal was, and is, overwhelming.
House Republicans’ latest plan to shield President Trump from impeachment is to focus on at least three deputies – U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland, Trump’s lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani, and possibly acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney – who they say could have acted on their own to influence Ukraine policy.
But the idea that Republicans can protect Trump by throwing Sondland, Giuliani, and Mulvaney under the bus still isn’t going to work.
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