How bad was diplomat William Taylor’s testimony for President Trump? It’s so much easier for Trump’s supporters on Capitol Hill to bleat about the process of the inquiry than it is to deny Taylor’s account or defend the quid pro quo. The secret sessions are the preliminaries, designed to figure out whether the allegations made by the as-yet unnamed whistleblower had a basis in reality. In other words, the secret sessions will soon give way to public ones. After all, Trump has insisted there was no quid pro quo, and he never lies, right?

Source: Los Angeles Times October 23, 2019 21:11 UTC