Right, Trump and Zelensky are lying, the call transcript is fake, everyone in the whitehouse involved in producing the transcript is in on the conspiracy. Also, we can prove this if we have secret meetings where Republicans are not allowed to question anyone and Schiff coaches the witnesses - if they’re even allowed to know the identity of the witness.
My god, Crunch, was there even a single truthful statement in that screed? And you like to talk about "fake news."
No one but you is calling the "transcript" "a fake." I'm certainly not. What I was pointing out is that it was not a word-for-word transcript of the conversation, which means that it is not a record of the exact wording and phrasing, and apparently is even missing portions of the call. So it is not a transcript, and does not provide a complete record of the conversation.
It says so itself in the flag note on the first page.So, yes, everyone is in on the "conspiracy," because they stated it in black and white on the very first page!
The meetings are not "secret" because there are Republicans,
and their staff, on every single committee, who hear the testimony at the same time as the Democrats on the committees. And you do realize that according to the rules of the House of Representatives (which were approved by vote in 2015), these hearings are
supposed to be held in private?
House meetings shall be open to the public except when a committee or subcommittee, in open session and with a majority present, "determines by record vote that all or part of the remainder of the meeting on that day shall be in executive session because disclosure of matters to be considered would endanger national security, would compromise sensitive law enforcement information, would tend to defame, degrade, or incriminate any person, or otherwise would violate a law or rule of the House."
(Emphasis mine.)
Does anyone think that there is no tendency of these hearings to incriminate, defame, or degrade anyone?
Would you like to ask President Trump for a second opinion?
And remember--these hearings are not a trial. They are more like a Grand Jury investigation. Testimony and facts are being uncovered. Hearsay is allowed. If there are sufficient facts, they go to the Senate, where the facts are reviewed. That's where lawyers and cross-examination occurs. So complaining that the Republicans on the committees may not have as much information or latitude as they would wish is just obfuscation. They'll have their chance, in the chamber they control.
When you have the facts on your side, you pound the facts. When you have the law on your side, you pound the law. When you have neither, you pound the table. There has been a lot of table-pounding about this lately.
