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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
"But fuck that attacking the messenger stuff" you said, obliviously, as you posted about outing the whistleblower.
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Where did I attack him? I said, strategically, now that he's outed (he is... Rand Paul all but said his name at a rally in KY yesterday, and numerous Rs have been using his last name in various public forums), defend him. Otherwise, you look like you're hiding something. He becomes the defendant who's not in the room, the empty chair for Republicans to bash.
The better way to have done this would be:
1. Not have Schiff's hands all over the WB in advance;
2. Not have Schiff anywhere near this thing;
3. Have some milquetoast Congressman with no history for Rs to attack run point instead;
4. Get a WB without direct ties to Brennan and Biden (it's all hearsay anyway, so why not get a WB that can't be painted as biased?);
5. Do the depositions in public, so you can get the Perry Mason moments that can be packaged into short video clips and circulated broadly (See: Kavanaugh).
The Rs are blundering here. The defense that Trump has a duty to root out corruption and Biden just happened to be suspected to be corrupt is one of the dumbest I've heard. But the Ds haven't exactly plotted this out too well. This could have been executed much more cleanly.
