Washington • President Trump’s defense against impeachment is bombastic, full of lies and incoherent to the point of lunacy, which is no surprise. Republicans are beclowning themselves to pretend Trump is making sense — and that, sadly, is also no surprise.
Trump has described his smoking-gun phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as “perfect,” which is only true from the point of view of the prosecutors in his impeachment trial, if it comes to that. His lawyer has claimed that Zelensky was the first to mention Joe and Hunter Biden, while the rough transcript of the call clearly shows that it was Trump who did so.