On Tuesday morning, the Republicans unveiled their supposed impeachment defense strategy, which amounts to little more than a command that Trump’s defenders in Congress keep a straight face while lying their heads off. GOP House leadership circulated a memo making flat-out laughable claims, such as the claim that the now-infamous July 25 call between Trump and Zelensky “shows no conditionality or evidence of pressure,” even though Trump literally says, “I would like you to do us a favor though” immediately after Zelensky asks him to release aid that Congress had already authorized.
Admonishing people not to believe their lying eyes will work on Trump’s supporters, of course, but it’s unlikely to work quite so well on mainstream media sources, even those who are eager to bend over backwards to give credence to Republican lies in the name of “balance.” So Trump is returning to the well that he’s drawn from in the past: Trying to make this whole scandal about Biden, even though Biden was, along with Zelensky, the primary intended victim of this extortion scheme.
View the complete November 13 article by Amanda Marcotte from Salon on the AlterNet website here.