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Republicans Know Trump Is Innocent—They’re Trying to Figure Out Why


Give Mac Thornberry this much: Unlike some of his Republican colleagues, he was at least trying.The Texas Republican appeared on ABC’s This Week Sunday, where he tentatively offered a message on the impeachment inquiry, which enters its public phase with hearings this Wednesday and Tuesday. Thornberry sought a middle course.“I believe that it is inappropriate for a president to ask a foreign leader to investigate a political rival,” he said. “I believe it was inappropriate. I do not believe it was impeachable.”[David A. Graham: It was a corrupt quid pro quo]Debatable, but coherent. But from there, things went off the …read more

Source:: The Atlantic

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