Most Americans know how Trump’s impeachment circus will end

The first public hearing into President Donald Trump’s impeachment began with a bang. And it proceeded throughout the afternoon into a constellation of two completely different realities. By the time the hours-long testimony was over, you might find yourself having trouble separating truth from conjecture.

Bill Taylor, the interim US ambassador to Ukraine and the star witness of the inquiry, told the panel of a previously unreported phone call between US ambassador to the EU, Gordon Sondland, and president Trump. According to Taylor, one of his aides overheard the conversation, in which Trump was inquiring about the status of Ukraine launching the politically-motivated investigations into the Bidens he was asking for.  

To the highly respected career diplomat, this latest news was just more evidence of what he believed was a disturbing corruption of US foreign policy. “By mid-July it was becoming clear to me that the meeting President Zelenskyy wanted [at the White House] was conditioned on the investigations of Burisma and alleged Ukrainian interference in the 2016 U.S.