Republicans push diversions and distractions ahead of this week's televised impeachment hearings
Posted on AllSides November 11th, 2019
From The Left
OPINION
Two days before televised impeachment hearings begin, Donald Trump's allies are peddling a smokescreen of conspiracy theories and distractions, hoping to sow confusion over the case against him.
Trump himself aggressively squelched the one defense that could ease the political pain of moderate Republican lawmakers. He warned that it would be unacceptable for any Republican to argue his phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was inappropriate but did not meet the constitutional standards for removal.
"Republicans, don't be led into the fools trap of saying it was not perfect,...