.MaddowBlog: Unwilling to present a defense, White House skips impeachment hearings.
Republicans originally argued that the House impeachment process was unfair because there’d been no formal vote on the House floor to authorize the inquiry. After the House did, in fact, hold such a vote, Republicans shifted their focus, complaining that the process is unfair because there were no public impeachment committee hearings.
There was some question, however, as to whether Team Trump might choose to play a role in future hearings. On Friday afternoon, in a letter that sounded a bit like the president himself, White House Counsel Pat Cipollone wrote to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler signaling that the boycott would continue. In read in part:
For his part, Nadler released a statement noting that his committee gave the president “a fair opportunity to question witnesses and present his own to address the overwhelming evidence before us. After listening to him complain about the impeachment process, we had hoped that he might accept our invitation. If the president has no good response to the allegations, then he would not want to appear before the committee. Having declined this opportunity, he cannot claim that the process is unfair.
As we discussed last week, the one thing Team Trump said it wanted most – a chance to participate and present a defense – now appears to be the thing Team Trump won’t accept.
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