President Trump claimed not to watch the first public impeachment hearings on TV, hosting the president of Turkey while a House committee began presenting evidence of whether he should be impeached.
Projecting unusual calm in the middle of a political firestorm, President Trump pleaded ignorance Wednesday about the first public impeachment hearing, unexpectedly insisting that he really wasn’t paying attention to sworn testimony in the House Intelligence Committee that could determine whether he serves out his term in office.
“I hear it’s a joke,” Trump said at a joint news conference in the White House East Room with the visiting president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. “I’ve been with the president, which is much more important.”Asked about the first day’s ostensible bombshell — the disclosure by William B. Taylor Jr.
But Trump’s stoic efforts to appear preoccupied with foreign affairs, however controversial Erdogan might be, and unaffected by the impeachment hearings that garnered wall-to-wall TV and radio coverage, served a strategic purpose, according to a Republican official familiar with the White House game plan.
But when GOP lawmakers finally got their chance to question witnesses in public, Rep. Devin Nunes, , the committee’s top Republican, derided the hearing as a made-for-television “drama,” dismissing the probe as “the low-rent Ukrainian sequel” after “the main performance, the Russia hoax, has ended.” But he was asked about it. Standing stiffly and speaking in a measured tone, Trump expressed his desire to reveal the identity of the whistleblower whose Sept. 12 complaint sparked the inquiry, and to investigate the intelligence community’s inspector general, who validated the complaint as credible and urgent.
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