First, Chairman Adam Schiff and the Democrats' counsel, Daniel Goldman, have attempted to frame a dichotomy between President Trump and what they call "Official" US foreign policy.
Official policy is not, as they suggest, made by the so-called policy community.
The function of the policy community is to give the president its best advice and the benefit of its considerable knowledge and experience.
In our representative republic, policy is made by the only official who actually answers to the voters whose lives and interests are at stake - the president.
The Democrats' theory is that it is misconduct for the president to depart from the policy priorities of unelected bureaucrats.
The president sets policy; the policy community is supposed to carry out the president's policy.
Second, Democrats highlight the president's reference, in the July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, to a conspiracy theory that Ukraine may have been complicit in the hacking of Democratic email accounts.
https://nypost.com/2019/11/19/the-three-big-lies-democrats-are-pushing-in-tuesdays-impeachment-hearing/
Official policy is not, as they suggest, made by the so-called policy community.
The function of the policy community is to give the president its best advice and the benefit of its considerable knowledge and experience.
In our representative republic, policy is made by the only official who actually answers to the voters whose lives and interests are at stake - the president.
The Democrats' theory is that it is misconduct for the president to depart from the policy priorities of unelected bureaucrats.
The president sets policy; the policy community is supposed to carry out the president's policy.
Second, Democrats highlight the president's reference, in the July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, to a conspiracy theory that Ukraine may have been complicit in the hacking of Democratic email accounts.
https://nypost.com/2019/11/19/the-three-big-lies-democrats-are-pushing-in-tuesdays-impeachment-hearing/
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