Republicans Shift Defense of Trump Again

“House Republicans, bracing for another week of impeachment hearings, asserted on Sunday that President Trump had done nothing wrong because his plans for Ukraine to investigate his political rivals never came to fruition — even as the president complicated their efforts by attacking another witness,” the New York Times reports.

“On a day of back-and-forth on Twitter and the morning television talk shows… Speaker Nancy Pelosi invited Mr. Trump to testify before the House Intelligence Committee, while the president’s allies shifted their emphasis away from the defense they offered last week, when they stressed that witnesses had only secondhand information against him.”

“That argument may not work much longer, because lawmakers are about to hear from crucial witnesses who had direct contact with the president.”