Rest assured, Benedict Donald was never seriously planning to make the final arguments in his New York fraud trial himself this week. It doesn't take a lot of imagination to predict that Judge Arthur Engoron would grant permission but only with the usual guardrails within which any defense attorney would have to work. And to which Trump, considering himself above the law, would never agree.
So now Trump can fundraise off of "being silenced," and, in fact, he probably already has. It's what he's always intended.
The Republican-led House Oversight Committee, by contrast, had their best-laid plans end up right in the crapper today. Although both Oversight and the House Judiciary Committee lamely voted to refer Hunter Biden for contempt of Congress, Hunter surprised them all by showing up — ready and willing to testify, but in public, not behind closed doors. As Representative Jasmine Crockett, one of our new Democratic superstars, explained, nobody wants to testify privately because, she said, "Y'all lie."
(Crockett had many magic moments dragging Republicans today. You can check out a few here.)
Another star on our side had to be Congressman Jared Moskowitz, who entered all the subpoenas that GOP members have ignored into the record, and dared the Trumpsters on the committee to hold them equally in contempt. "If you vote yes on contempt for them, I'll vote yes on Hunter," he basically said. Nobody took him up on it.
But the big winner today was Hunter himself, who, after presenting himself unexpectedly, staged a walkout just as Marjorie Taylor Greene was recognized to speak. He and his lawyers got up and left, the media stampeding right behind, thus denying Greene what she craved most — the cameras. (She was not happy.) People on Twitter started calling him "Dark Hunter." He's earning the name.
What the Republicans are quite stupidly doing is turning Hunter Biden into a sympathetic figure. (And by showing more naughty photos of him, a sex symbol — it doesn't hurt that he's handsome). You have to wonder if the few non-crazypants members in the GOP caucus are privately shaking their heads at James Comer, not just for being a hypocrite but for so badly mismanaging this clown show. We cats PURR.
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