Republicans in Congress are grasping at straws to defend an increasingly indefensible President Donald Trump against impeachment.
The latest plan, according to reporting in The Washington Post, is to saddle the blame for Trump’s predicament on his deputies.
It’s a stretch. But we are talking about GOP members of the House of Representatives and Senate, after all.
Specifically, they want us to believe that Trump’s singular drive to elicit political favors from the Ukrainian government in exchange for military aid was the rogue or incompetent action of U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland, Trump’s lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani, and acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney.
Apparently they can’t read the new Trump rally T-shirts that say “Read the transcript” – let alone the rough and partial transcript itself.