.MaddowBlog: Republicans prepared to ignore ‘mountain' of uncontested evidence.
If the domestic political world were playing a game of Clue, the impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump would be at its end point when the player identifies the culprit behind the crime. Each of the relevant players now knows who was responsible for the misdeeds, and the questions about how, when, and why the misdeeds were committed have been answered.
Stitched together, their hours of televised testimony paint a portrait of an American president willing to leverage his powerful office to push a foreign government for personal political help. Those were, of course, foolish assumptions. Not only is Donald Trump pretending the devastating revelations exonerated him, but Politico reported overnight, “[E]ven as Democrats felt that they had made an ironclad case that Trump had abused the power of his office by pressuring a foreign government to interfere in the 2020 election, they were no closer to persuading even a single House Republican to join them in voting to impeach the president.
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