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Republicans in Congress take the reins in impeachment defense amid damaging testimony for Trump
CNN ^ | Oct. 24, 2019 | Jeremy Herb, Manu Raju, Lauren Fox and Phil Mattingly

Posted on 10/24/2019 3:41:59 PM PDT by Innovative

Faced with a barrage of damaging headlines for President Donald Trump stemming from impeachment inquiry testimony, congressional Republicans are beginning to coalesce around a strategy aimed at discrediting key witnesses and taking a more confrontational stance against the Democratic-led impeachment process.

Republicans on Thursday ramped up their skepticism of the testimony delivered by US diplomat Bill Taylor — which undercut White House claims Ukraine aid wasn't tied to an investigation that could help him politically — and the Senate's No. 2 Republican Sen. John Thune walked back earlier concerns he expressed about Taylor's opening statement.

Republicans in the Senate have also shown little interest in investigating the frozen Ukraine aid, with two committee chairmen signaling that's not a priority right now.

Congressional Republican lawmakers and aides say they are taking the reins to defend the President in the impeachment inquiry amid mounting fears that the White House is not consistent nor organized enough to lead the President's defense. But their efforts come as the President publicly and privately is pushing congressional Republicans to toughen up their defense of him as the Democratic impeachment process marches forward.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: billbarr; congress; connecticut; coup; impeachment; johndurham; michaelhorowitz; republicans; trump
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Good. About time that R-s stand up to the Dems and stop this witch-hunt by the Dems.
1 posted on 10/24/2019 3:41:59 PM PDT by Innovative
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To: Innovative

What damaging testimony . it’s all Secret


2 posted on 10/24/2019 3:45:29 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Innovative

Fake ‘damaging’. Whining cry babies and quadruple heresay. That’s their ‘case’.


3 posted on 10/24/2019 3:46:05 PM PDT by Lent
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To: butlerweave

why the fck are we posting cnn articles?????


4 posted on 10/24/2019 3:46:16 PM PDT by BuckeyeGOP
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To: Innovative

LOL what damaging testimony..there is NO damaging testimony otherwise it would be a PUBLIC HEARING..everyone involved has some connection to Soros and Schiff so there testimony is void


5 posted on 10/24/2019 3:47:38 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: BuckeyeGOP

Taylor heard this 4th hand. Rats got him to just say anything to hurt Trump.


6 posted on 10/24/2019 3:48:10 PM PDT by mplc51
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To: butlerweave

“damaging headlines” which is what schitt for brains is after.


7 posted on 10/24/2019 3:49:17 PM PDT by OSHA (What did I come in here for?)
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To: Innovative

What is the charge? This is a lynching just like Trump said.


8 posted on 10/24/2019 3:53:34 PM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: Innovative
Damaging testimony??

FUCNN!

9 posted on 10/24/2019 3:55:56 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: Innovative

CNN: “ IF we couldn’t lie, we couldn’t publish!”
LOL!
So much lying here.


10 posted on 10/24/2019 3:56:24 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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Why post crud from CNN. All trash.


11 posted on 10/24/2019 3:57:34 PM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Innovative

CNN. All garbage all the time. Isn’t perpetrating a fraud via telecom lines a Federal crime?


12 posted on 10/24/2019 3:58:00 PM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: BuckeyeGOP

We are posting CNN articles, because we need to be aware of what they are saying, because many people still get their news from the MSM, including CNN.


13 posted on 10/24/2019 3:58:23 PM PDT by Innovative
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I may be alone on this position, but I think they ALL need to STFU and get on with The Peoples’ Business!

Good Lord! Do your friggin’ JOBS!

I cannot WAIT to see these jacks kicked to the curb and I cannot WAIT for a 2020 Landslide.

If the Pubbies screw it up for PDJT, I’m gonna flat-out EXPLODE! (And it won’t be pretty!)


14 posted on 10/24/2019 3:58:33 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden.~Alfred Austin)
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To: Innovative

This is an absurd hit piece that doubles as propaganda for the democrat clown show. Meat for the useful idiots. The authors come across as left wing deep state plants. True believers. Embarrassing in its idiocy.


15 posted on 10/24/2019 3:59:20 PM PDT by youngidiot (God save the President!)
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I may be alone on this position, but I think they ALL need to STFU and get on with The Peoples’ Business!

In the real world these immature spoiled brats would have been canned.

16 posted on 10/24/2019 4:00:24 PM PDT by Boomer (Our melting pot has turned into a pressure cooker)
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To: Innovative

4 authors + CNN = the ultimate in pure bull$hit


17 posted on 10/24/2019 4:02:32 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Boomer

I’ve FIRED better people than our current crop of Dem Congress-Critters! They make me ill.


18 posted on 10/24/2019 4:06:00 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden.~Alfred Austin)
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To: Innovative

It took four people to write this dumbass article? It’s like how many Polaks does it take to screw in a light bulb. No offense to Polish folks.


19 posted on 10/24/2019 4:06:05 PM PDT by HighSierra5
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Taylor is the a$$hole that Schiff met with in Ukraine shortly before this latest hoax started? Taylor is the treasonous SOB who had no direct knowledge of anything and knew only hearsay and who had everything he said contradicted by Sondland? Smells like one of Schiff’s fake whistleblowers to me.


20 posted on 10/24/2019 4:08:57 PM PDT by jospehm20
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