What Went Down On Day 1 Of The Impeachment Hearings

George W. Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer doesn’t think this is going well for the GOP, either.

Castor’s questioning isn’t really effective right now in my book. Taylor seems confused by his questions, in part because Castor hasn’t really laid out a universe of facts/context for Taylor to explain where he, Castor, is coming from. Castor largely seems to be asking Taylor “do you agree” to questions that are sort of akin to “Wasn’t it fair for Trump to think that some in the Ukrainian establishment was out to get him?”

Someone somewhere in the ether made a good point recently about the point of conspiracy theories: They aren’t always meant to make people believe in them, but rather to make it feel like the real truth and facts of the matter are impossible to know. Republicans’ questions about Ukraine’s role in the 2016 election brought that to mind.