CNN’s Avlon Rips Trump Over Impeachment Strategy: ‘We’ve Never Seen a President Insist on an Alternate Reality’

EXCERPT:

AVLON: “Just when that approach appeared to be getting traction, the President fired off a tweet that undercut their argument. But amid all this circus, let’s not forget that impeachment is serious stuff. It’s only been pursued four times in our history. We’ve seen presidents fight for their political lives, but we’ve never seen a president insist on an alternate reality, repeating fact-free nonsense over and over, betting his supporters will buy it. After all, though, one of Trump’s lawyers just literally argued in court that Trump could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and not face any immediate legal consequences. We shouldn’t give in to this normalization because in a republic facts matter, not simply fear of a dear leader or fear of an agitated base. Facts matter because of our republic’s ability to reason together. The question for the country, or more specifically congressional Republicans, is whether they will insist on a fact-based impeachment inquiry or simply fall into line behind an emperor who’s clearly wearing no clothes while saying something that sounds a lot like this."