Based on Mr. Philbin’s performance opening the so-called Trump impeachment defense, it seems many rats have already jumped the sinking Trump ship. If he’s the best they can put on stage at this juncture, I’m afraid the writing is on the wall. A more monotonous, repetitive, rambling course of snooze material is hard to recall. They didn’t even attempt to address the charges or evidence, presumably because no plausibly exculpatory comment is possible. Rather, the GOP rhetoric and innuendo stream meanders through administrative and he-said she-said trivia and propaganda, repeated endlessly for the media.
Sipollone’s weak closing after such a brief, substance-less opening is telling.
