Full title: Shouting match erupts in Vindman deposition as Democrats accuse Republicans of trying to out whistleblower
Lost for for any rational means of defending Trump's attempt to make a foreign government investigate his political rival by withholding critical military aid, Republicans have only three means left to them:
1) attack the process
2) attack the witnesses
3) refuse to answer the question of whether it's appropriate for a President to ask a foreign power to investigate a political rival
However, one of these witnesses is anonymous, depriving Republicans of the ability to attack the him or her directly, such as they did with Vindman today by questioning his patriotism.
In the process, Republicans will burn down the whistleblower program in order to protect Trump. We can also safely predict where they will move the goal post to: impeachment cannot be considered until the identity of the whistleblower is revealed. Congressional Republicans haven't made that demand yet, but we can see how the anonymity of the WB is driving them up the walls, so I'm pretty confident they'll arrive at that demand soon enough.
Right. They're not trying to ferret out who the whistleblower is. They just want to know who Vindman spoke to.
Right. They're not trying to figure out who the whistleblower is. They just want to speak directly with the person who's "trying to bring down the President of the United States," a phrasing that doesn't at all reveal a deeply personal and pathological need to defend the President at the cost of blowing up the rule of law itself.
Shouting match erupts in Vindman deposition as Democrats accuse Republicans of trying to out whistleblower - CNNPolitics
