Good synopsis of the situation thus far.
I’ll watch this later when I have a little more time.
I ended up watching the entire 2 hours (not 3 as advertised). I have a few takes that I can remember from this morning.
1. Jay Sekulow kept repeating he was not going to repeat like the Dems did. I found this quite humerous.
2. All the presenters were very good. Paused a little too much. Probably could have finished in an hour and a half but I won’t complain. It was powerful and fact filled.
3. I learned a couple of things. The subpoenas that were issued by Schiff and his committee were not legal since Schiff didn’t have a vote from the entire house authorizing him to issue subpoenas. Which is the way any committee gets its authorization to issue them. Trump ignored them for this reason. How can Trump obstruct if the subpoenas were not legal/authorized. This made so much sense about how Trump responded to Schiff. Before I found this out I was perturbed at Trump for just ignoring the subpoenas.
4. Trump’s foreign policy is tremendous!!! I honestly had no idea that he was so involved and having his people perform oversight on the aid that he signed off on to numerous countries. If the countries didn’t perform as promised he stopped all aid to those countries. It was actually quite common for him to hold up foreign aid if they didn’t fight corruption. Or if they didn’t spend the money the way they stated they would. I don’t recall any president in recent history doing this. If that isn’t fighting for America I don’t know what is.
The more I hear the more I am impressed by Trump. Even tho he likes to toot his own horn, the things that I think are very important, like foreign policy, he is not so much letting us know. I will bash him for not letting us know more about his foreign policy. But now that I know, I approve! This president just went up a few notches in my book. It’s a shame it had to take this impeachment to find this out but still. I have a much stronger respect for Trump.
I learned nothing from Schiff and Nadler and the House managers in 23 hours. I learned so much that I had no idea about in the first 2 hours from Trumps defense team. I’m looking forward to learning more about what went on behind the scenes.