The ImpeachmentHearings are unfolding in an era when influence and misinformation efforts move at a speed that was unimaginable 20+ years ago, when the nation last experienced this process, as AP’s AamerISmad and AmandaSeitz1 report.
Moments before House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff could welcome witnesses to the first public hearing of the impeachment inquiry, President Donald Trump took to Twitter to dismiss the “New Hoax. Same Swamp.”
It is a moment when influence and misinformation efforts move at lightning speed and with a sophistication that would have been unimaginable when the nation last went through a presidential impeachment more than 20 years ago, an era when dialup modems and AOL message boards powered the digital town square.could end his first round of questioning, Trump backers labeled the hearing an inconsequential #Snoozefest.
Taylor said the staffer asked Sondland what President Trump thought about Ukraine. Sondland responded that Trump cared more about investigating Biden. “BOOM: #TrumpBribery is trending nationally and has already been tweeted over 10,000 times. Let’s keep it going!” Scott Dworkin, co-founder of the Democratic Coalition Against Trump, cheered on Twitter.
“Of the 435 members of Congress, you are the only member who knows who that individual is,” Jordan told Schiff. “And your staff is the only staff of any member of Congress that has had a chance to talk to that individual. We would like that opportunity. When might that happen in this proceeding today?”
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