Rep. Chris Stewart appeared on Fox News’ Laura Ingraham Show last week and suggested that diplomats who appear before congressional committees conducting impeachment depositions and hearings, are part of a “deep state,” and that they are somehow “betraying the people,” and “betraying the trust of the Constitution.”
It has become the hallmark of the most ardent of the president’s defenders to turn truth on its head, and to make those who may do damage to the president’s interests, through simply telling the truth, targets of ridicule. They attack the witnesses and the process because there is no defense for the president’s actions.