Five days of live hearings, eight witnesses, 22 members of Congress, and one very important (live-tweeting!) hate-watcher
for her, forever. We watched as Republican senators, one after another, consoled Brett Kavanaugh for the inconvenience of being accused of sexual assault. Yovanovitch’s firing, her sullied reputation, is just another casualty of the same machine.
Or asformer Russia expert at the National Security Council, put it during her testimony, “Often when women show anger, it's not fully appreciated.” Hill, who testified Thursday with Holmes, went into the hearing knowing exactly how different that stage is for women—and over the course of several hours, crushed the opposition against her, all while wielding a no-nonsense Yorkshire accent . With her mouth set in a horizontal grimace, Hill compressed the case to its crucial components,both what Trump, Sondland, and Giulani were up to and how damaging such chicanery can be. Watching her elegantly dismantle the GOP was astounding. Sondland had showy testimony, but he’s a slippery man who bought his way into an ambassadorship—and he’s already changed his testimony once. Hill radiated competence and honesty, and her careful testimony is the kind that holds up well to thoughtful, next-day digestion. Multiple reporters have described her as a nearly perfect
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