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Originally Posted by Adder
I wonder if Cohen and Lanny Davis would have been better off leaving the racism out of his testimony, as it gives half of the country an easy exit point to dismiss what Cohen is saying and, unfortunately, isn't likely to be relevant to his fitness to serve.
Which has me sort of recalling a congressman introducing articles of impeachment that started with "he's a racist." Like, true and all, but that is not going anywhere.
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They can't help themselves. The Democrats overthink and seem insecure about their hand.
If they asked dozens more questions regarding specifics of Trump's business frauds, this hearing would have been catastrophic for Trump. But they didn't, partly because I don't think a lot of them understood how those crimes work. (Congresspeople are not the most sophisticated lot.) But also because they were more interested in eliciting a soundbite on an issue they think will reach the broadest coalition of their voters. So they gave speeches, we heard a grand debate on racism, they lauded Cohen, and the American people came away with this:
Donald Trump has horrible personal character and a lot of Democrats think he's a racist and a bunch of Congresspeople argued about whether one of them was a racist.
In other news, the sun rose this morning.
And in 48 hours, its all erased in the media cycle, AOC's questions meriting a thimble's worth of ink in the press, while the Meadows debacle gets an oil tanker's worth.
