plus more impeachment takeaways
| | | | | Women and immigrants, demeaned by Trump, take center stage at impeachment |
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| | | When former White House adviser Fiona Hill, who served as the National Security Council’s top official on Russian affairs, testified before the House Intelligence Committee on Thursday, she described a sharp interaction with Gordon Sondland.
Hill said it began when she had a tense disagreement with the U.S. ambassador to the European Union. “I actually said to [Sondland], ‘Who put you in charge of Ukraine?’” Hill said of the encounter. “I mean I’ll admit I was a bit rude, but that’s when he told me the president, which shut me up.”
Hill said that she was angry with the ambassador — and that Sondland dismissed her concerns because she is a woman.
“Often, when women show anger, it’s not fully appreciated,” she continued. “It’s often pushed onto emotional issues perhaps or deflected onto other people.”
Throughout his presidency, Donald Trump has routinely demeaned, degraded and attacked women and immigrants. Over the past five days of impeachment hearings, some of the most incriminating testimony has come from those very people.
Key witnesses who have testified in the public impeachment hearings, which began last week, include women like Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Laura Cooper, a deputy assistant secretary at the Defense Department, and Jennifer Williams, a top aide to Vice President Mike Pence, in addition to immigrants like Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the NSC’s Ukraine expert. (Hill has the distinction of being both an immigrant and a woman.) Day after day, these witnesses laid out a damning case against Trump. |
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| | | | | | | | | Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) promoted a far-right influencer with a history of Holocaust denial and anti-immigrant bigotry, who once tweeted, “Hitler had some good points. I think the Holocaust never actually happened.” |
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| | More than 20 U.S. senators now call on White House senior adviser Stephen Miller to resign after leaked emails published last week revealed the disturbing depths of his white nationalism. |
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| | Bernie Sanders said he is “disgusted” by reports that billionaire Michael Bloomberg plans to spend millions of dollars in television ads for his presidential campaign. |
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