Friday is the second day of public impeachment hearings into Donald Trump’s attempts to extort Ukraine into interfering in the 2020 elections, and Daily Kos will be covering the proceedings all day. George Kent, a deputy assistant secretary of state, and Bill Taylor, the acting ambassador to Ukraine, testified on Wednesday, bringing the revelation that Trump had been overheard on a phone call with Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland asking about “the investigations.” Former Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch is up today, and will detail the smear campaign against her by Rudy Giuliani.
Republicans showed Wednesday that all they bring to the table is conspiracy theories, further attempts to smear Trump’s targets, and yelling. And the media showed itself to be unable to deal with what the day demanded. Will that change Friday?
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