The first public impeachment hearing of President Trump has begun. Here's what you need to know about witness Bill Taylor
Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images The first public impeachment hearing of President Trump begins Wednesday at 10 a.m., and as with Robert Mueller’s testimony earlier this year, it will require observers to remember an intimidating number of names and backchannel exchanges.
There is no evidence of Taylor belonging to the tepid GOP opposition, and he has never donated to a candidate running for federal office, according to Federal Election Commission data.Inconsequential. In his texts to Gordon Sondland in September, the public servant adamantly disagreed with the plan to withhold aid in exchange for a political favor.
“The body language of the people hearing it was, ‘holy shit’ — seriously,” Harley Rouda, a Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, told Politico.Taylor will be vital to the case for impeachment because of his frequent contact with administration officials as they pushed Ukraine to do Trump’s bidding.
As CNN analyst and former federal prosecutor Elie Honig notes, Taylor will be a strong early witness for Democrats: “He is credible, he is backed up by independent evidence, and his testimony goes to the heart of the matter.”
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