Democrats holding the best hand in impeachment Trump inquiry: Analyst

In the impeachment inquiry against US President Donald Trump, the Democrats seem to be holding the best hand while the supporters of the incompetent Trump are grasping at straws in defending him, according to Myles Hoenig, an American political analyst and activist in Maryland.

Trump has intensified his attacks against Democrats and the media, as an impeachment inquiry into his attempts to dig dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden, a possible 2020 rival, nears its much-anticipated public phase.

Trump stands accused of asking Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky during a phone call in June to give him all the available details about the dealings of Biden and his son, Hunter, in Ukraine in exchange for continuing US military aide to the country.

The Republican head of state took to twitter on Wednesday to vent his anger at the media, whom he rebranded as “Enemy of the People” for claiming that Trump has asked Attorney General William Barr to squash the Ukraine quid pro quo rumors.

PressTV-Trump attacks Dems as impeachment nears public phase

US President Donald Trump once again attacked the Democrats and the “LameStream” media days before public impeachment hearings begin.

“Considering that Donald Trump is a pathological liar, all claims of attacks on him being lies are in themselves lies, but he’s appealing to his base who’ll pressure the Republican senators to not remove him, regardless of what the evidence shows,” said Hoenig, who ran for Congress in 2016 as a Green Party candidate.

“The media is fake but not for the reasons Trump says. They withhold information to present a picture that doesn’t reflect reality and successfully work to persuade their audience to ignore different points of view. That is based primarily on who their sponsors are and who owns the particular medium outlet. But on the issue of impeachment they show their lack of journalistic rigor by failing to ask follow up questions,” Hoenig said in an interview with Press TV on Thursday.

“One example is that rarely have they made any reference to either the Clinton impeachment or Clinton Benghazi hearings. Do the Republicans feel those hearings were fair, and if so, are they just complaining that they’re no longer in the majority? Also they rarely ask why the Republicans never leak information beneficial to Trump that comes out of the closed door hearings,” he said.

“Trump has his media supporters, primarily Fox, and the Democrats have theirs, notably CNN and MSNBC. The idea of journalistic integrity is missing in the US, where very few mainstream media outlets take no side and report objectively and thoroughly,” he noted.  

“But as this is a game of political power, the Democrats seem to be holding the best hand. Through their closed door hearings they have been able to prevent the witnesses from sharing information, keeping them honest or face perjury charges. With the public hearings next week the Trump team will have to re-evaluate their strategies once again as the latest being they were too incompetent to do a quid pro quo, as Sen. Graham seems to suggest. Eventually, even some of his supporters will see that they are grasping at straws in defending him,” the analyst concluded.

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