.MaddowBlog: ‘Game changer’ report jolts debate over Senate impeachment trial.
The recent impeachment of Donald Trump ushered in a new phase of the president’s scandal, but it did not mark the end of revelations about what transpired when the administration took steps to extort a vulnerable ally for domestic political gain. The New York Times published a report earlier this week that jolted the broader debate, highlighting new details about concerns within the White House regarding Trump’s directive to withhold military aid to Ukraine.
And [acting White House Chief of Staff Mick] Mulvaney is shown to have been deeply involved as a key conduit for transmitting Mr. Trump’s demands for the freeze across the administration. The article specifically referenced a pointed email from Elaine McCusker, the Pentagon’s top budget official, to Michael Duffey, a political appointee at OMB who was directly involved in executing Trump’s scheme. “You can’t be serious,” McCusker wrote on Sept. 10, after learning of Trump’s plan. “I am speechless.”
To say that senators shouldn’t hear from these first-hand witnesses is to effectively endorse a cover-up. Either the “jurors” in Trump’s impeachment trial will get the whole truth or they won’t, but it’s now far more difficult to mount a credible defense in support of willful ignorance. In a Washington Post op-ed, Sen. Doug Jones added that each of the requested witnesses “has direct knowledge regarding the charges against the president and should testify under oath at a Senate trial.” He added, “Let me be clear: I do not know what their answers would be, but I want to hear from them, and so should every senator and every American. We cannot allow the full truth to evade this trial only to be revealed in some future memoir or committee hearing.
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