54 percent support impeachment — a SURPRISING statistic in light of gop/white house efforts to undermine the investigation.
In these sad days of Americans retreating to their bunkers of partisan news information, a good sign of whether a story is “newsworthy” is when those bunkers fail. For example, if an article appears egregious on CNN, it’s usually a good idea to look to how FoxNews reports on the same event. A sad state of affairs today — oh how objective journalism is a dying breed. A recent Fox News poll is providing such calibration.
The story is buried, but the FoxNews poll reports an increase in American support of impeachment. It’s an even higher majority than what was previously reported in late October. Of course, President Trump quickly took to twitter to repudiate the poll of the leading news organization that has it’s highest loyalty to him.
The bigger question, what degree of public support of impeachment is needed for GOP members of Congress to start standing up for investigating the truth? The White House has made every effort to undermine the House impeachment inquiry, yet GOP Congressman and Senators cling to the notion that the facts aren’t there — but what is fueling such a narrative? The White House has directed fact witness not to cooperate and testify. Although a handful of such witnesses disobeyed the White House’s direction, such a precedent will virtually preclude future Congresses of investigating the President.
Some would think if a witness refuses to testify at the direction of their accused boss, it would weaken the case of the accused, but the GOP is leveraging such subversion from the White House to poke holes in the House impeachment inquiry. GOP members of Congress have argued that witnesses of the July 25 Zelenskey call were not firsthand. On it’s face, this is not true — Amb. Gordon Sondland, Jennifer Williams and Lt. Colonal Vindman all were on the call and testified.
“If you don’t like hearsay, release the documents; if you don’t like hearsay, let people testify!” said Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Ill.). “They’re afraid of the testimony they have already seen, and there’s a reason that they don’t want the rest of this to get out.”
Even with such a shameful disregard of congressional oversight, effectively neutering the branch of government, public support of impeachment remains close to or over a majority of voters. This is a far more compelling statistic in light of the Clinton impeachment, which had significantly lower public support — additionally, Clinton’s approval rating was 70 percent at the time.
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