Rank-and-file Republicans haven’t gone so far as to join their Democratic counterparts in supporting the impeachment inquiry—but they have gone to absurd lengths to avoid discussing the matter
For now, Republicans have been afforded a little bit of breathing room by their congressional recess. But they’ll have to come up with answers when they return to Washington in a week, and could find themselves flailing if the White House still hasn’t come up with the strategy it has suggested, at least in public, that it doesn’t need. “There has not been any effort to put together a war room,” press secretaryon Wednesday. “The president did nothing wrong.
” That kind of defiance in the face of obvious wrongdoing has allowed Trump to skate free in the past. But in defaulting to that posture now, he and his staff seem to be in denial about the gravity of the situation. “This is a very different animal than the Mueller investigation,”. “It’s a political question, not a legal one.
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