In her opening statement before the House Intelligence Committee impeachment inquiry hearings, Dr. Fiona Hill, the former National Security Council's expert on Russia, will ask that the Rethuglicans' stop pushing a false narrative about Ukraine being involved in undermining the 2016 elections:
"Based on questions and statements I have heard, some of you on this committee appear to believe that Russia and its security services did not conduct a campaign against our country -- that perhaps somehow, for some reason, Ukraine did. This is a fictional narrative that has been perpetrated and propagated by the Russian security services. [snip]
In the course of this investigation, I would ask that you please not promote politically driven falsehoods that so clearly advance Russian interests. I refuse to be part of an effort to legitimize an alternate narrative that the Ukrainian government is a U.S. adversary, and that Ukraine — not Russia —attacked us in 2016." (our emphasis)Every Rethuglican on that committee has at one time or another -- and in some rabid cases like scurrilous weasels Devin "Numbnuts" Nunes, Jim "Gym" Jordan and John "The Rat" Ratcliffe it's a constant refrain -- has pushed the Kremlin's false narrative about Ukraine being out to get Trump in the 2016 elections, something that Trump mentioned in a May 23 Oval Office meeting with Gordon Sondland and others. This much is clear: the Rethuglicans are lying and abetting Russia's interests in undermining the U.S. by pushing this false narrative to protect Trump.
BONUS:
Fiona Hill’s statement was extraordinarily powerful. She made clear that the Republicans on the Committee are damaging our national security by perpetrating an anti-Ukraine myth concocted by Putin to divide and undermine America. Her explanation of Russia’s tactics was brilliant— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) November 21, 2019
Fiona Hill shutting down all the outrageous and dangerous Russian Influence on social media and in the news. Basically scolding idiotic conspiracy theories about Ukraine meddling and debunked lies that @DevinNunes & Republicans have been spouting all week. Totally insane.— Erik Reichenbach (@ErikReichenb4ch) November 21, 2019
In this hearing the smart girl who has it together in school is explaining the world to the class clown who wanted to cheat off her tests. If you ever wondered what happened to both, here it is.— stuart stevens (@stuartpstevens) November 21, 2019
