We were treated this week to another Capitol Hill theater of the absurd episode as the GOP bends itself into pretzels trying to shield Donald Trump from accountability over Ukraine. More importantly, we are also being treated to brave public servants defying 45 and his congressional enablers. People like Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Laura Cooper
who spoke for three hours yesterday about 45 denying Congressionally approved aid to Ukraine until they coughed up imaginary dirt on the Biden family.
Why just three hours when other key witnesses like Ambassador William Taylor have testified for nine or more hours? This New Yorker piece details why his testimony this week was so damning and damaging for trump.
Thirty plus Republican members of Congress, who have clearly been consuming waaayyy too much orange Kool-Aid, broke protocol and federal law to protest and delay Cooper's testimony. Because she was going to speak on national security issues, her testimony was set for a secure setting. Enter, stage right, what appeared for all the world to be a gay men's choir (as a Facebook friend put it) blocking the hall and demanding entrance into the secure room. With cellphones. And ordering junk food on said cellphones. Also, half of the protesting politicians had clearance to attend one or more of the three committees set to hear Cooper's testimony.
So Ms. Cooper had to wait five hours while the choir boys insisted on transparency by violating secure space in which Ms. Cooper was attempting to provide Congress with, wait for it, transparency. So far she has been the only Pentagon witness. The Pentagon tried to stop her from testifying and they have thus far refused to hand over requested military documents.
We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the Coopers and Taylors in public service. Because of their speaking out, Congress and the American people are learning the depths of trump's self-serving depravity. As for the trumpets in the House? They need to be shown the door.
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