Former ambassador to the Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch calmly dismantled Republican staff attorney Steve Castor’s line of questioning centered on the idea that Ukrainian officials were out to get then-candidate Donald Trump during the second half of her Friday hearing.
Castor is pitiful. He just didn’t seem serious.
Yovanovitch just ran rings around him.
What a show!
Great composure under fire from the liar in chiefAnd his minions!
I was going to ask if Steve Castor is the best that the Republicans could get. I think I know of a castor that could run rings around their Castor everyday of the week, and twice on Sunday.
He apparently has a reputation - among the R’s. These hearings aren’t boosting his reputation with the rest of us.
So, will the Republicans put on actual witnesses to provide evidence of all their conspiracy theories? Or will they just proclaim them as established because they questioned witnesses about them (who either denied them or didn’t know WTF the Republicans were talking about) and because - the ever-so-valid-and-convincing - “people are saying that …”?
I get the feeling Castor watched footage of Wednesday’s hearings and read the reviews of how pathetically his his ‘cranked up chihuahua’ schtick came across. Decided to forgo a repeat performance.
You have to admit, it’s pretty damn funny when they float these bizarre (and thoroughly debunked) conspiracy theories only to discover that smart people don’t watch FAUX Snooze and, thus, have no idea what the hell they are talking about.
Republicans are sooooo stupid. They honestly think the best defense of Trump is to point out all the people who hate him and/or think he’s dangerous. Like, yeah. You’re right. There ARE a lot of people who say they’d never support Trump, some of whom risked their careers to stop him or report his misdeeds. How do you imagine this makes them look like the bad guys?
And the real issue is that they only supported Trump to spite liberals and are now ashamed of everything he says and does. By talking about Trump, it means you’re attacking them for supporting Trump. Trump openly says this is the key to his support and it’s true.
Castor seems to be sucking a lemon when questioning Yovanovitch. Well, maybe he just sucks.
Maybe so. He looked foolish on Wednesday, and today, he is throwing soft balls. I loved how the R’s first praised Yovanovitch at first and then, in the most obvious way, we all knew they were going to try to pin her down somehow. When you watch her face, her eyes get fixed in the most professional way, and you know she is not going to be moved by the phony smoke.
STEELY EYED MISSILE WOMAN!
This is what I saw during my lunch break, and thought that Castor didn’t have any enthusiasm for the line of questioning. I concluded the questions had been given to him by a very whiny bottomed Donald Trump.
Going forward, “victimhood” will, more than ever, be the horse that the GOP will ride, independent of any of the actual testimony of the witnesses the Dems have called, are calling and will call.
I’m not sure he really wants to be there, at this point. Maybe they’ll bring someone in from the bull(shit)pen next week.
I wish someone would post the corresponding Russian propaganda, translated. Then folks could see where this idiocy emanates from.
Well, if you can’t believe Putin … who ya gonna believe?
Lets face it, he has nothing to work with, and after Trumps tweet was read in public, there was nothing but praise for the Ambassador.
Trump is his worst enemy.
To be fair, even the best chefs can’t make a tasty souffle when their only ingredients are a stale turd and some Cheetos.
It wasn’t a fair fight. If you listened to her resume, the breadth of her experience, the years of foreign service sometimes (mostly, even) in the worst imaginable circumstances, you’d have to know that any Republican on this committee or Republican-paid attorney who tried to actually engage with her on the issues was going have their head handed to them.
I think my dogs could run rings around him – even the aborable but not-so-smart one.