What Went Down On Day 1 Of The Impeachment Hearings

I think that’s right, Galen. One of the challenges today will be to make voters feel like Trump and Giuliani’s behavior is a real threat to American security. Maybe something like the American Revolution allusion is designed to help hammer that home — but I think career diplomats may overestimate the extent to which the average watcher is interested in geopolitical history lessons!

Kent makes an explicit comparison between aid to Ukraine and the aid American colonists received while fighting the British in the American Revolution. A not-so-subtle reminder about Ukraine’s vulnerability and the importance of the security assistance.

If say, the whistleblower has been writing “I love Obama and I love Hillary even more,” on his Facebook page every day since 2014 and that becomes public, that would be a big news story. But I’m assuming that is not the case — that whatever his/her alleged loyalties ties to the Democrats, they are not that direct. I assume by the end of this process, lots of people will know who the whistleblower is. But I feel like that matters way less now that several people who work in the government will have described the Ukraine scheme in great detail, some of them on television.