A Senate trial could put Trump’s use of aggressive defense tactics to their biggest test
WASHINGTON — Over four decades in public life, President Donald Trump has sought to bend business, real estate and political rivals to his will. Facts that cut against his position have been declared false. Witnesses who have questioned his motives have been declared dishonest. Critics of his behavior are part of a corrupt, shadowy effort aiming to damage him.
In the course of the hearings held over the past two weeks by the House Intelligence Committee as part of the impeachment inquiry, his goal was to bulldoze past testimony by an array of witnesses — including some from his own White House — who under oath laid out the president’s pressure campaign against the Ukrainian government to investigate, or say it was investigating, the Bidens.
“He once told me that if you stay with a position long enough, there’s a very good chance it would become correct,” D’Antonio said. In the “Fox and Friends” interview, Trump unleashed a torrent of falsehoods to support his claims, including saying that the Obama administration wiretapped his 2016 campaign and asserting that Schiff “made up” a phone call of his, when, in fact, the California congressman stated at the time that he was conveying “the essence” of Trump’s July 25 call with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy of Ukraine.
At one point, hosts Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade — who are reliably friendly to the president — conveyed a hint of skepticism. He focused particularly on an account given by David Holmes, a State Department official who said he had overheard a phone call between Trump and Gordon Sondland, the ambassador to the European Union, while he was with Sondland in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital.
To ensure support as the impeachment process plays out, Trump and his aides have spent weeks meeting or speaking individually with dozens of congressional Republicans, at times hosting them at Camp David and for lunch at the White House. At one White House visit recently, he hosted several lawmakers for a screening of the movie “Joker.”
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