Rep. Turner used hearsay testimony from Fiona Hill to demonstrate the problem with using hearsay in this campaign to impeach President Trump:
Turner begins by quoting from Hill’s testimony saying:
“Based on questions and statements I have heard, some of you on this committee appear to believe that Russia and its security services did not conduct a campaign against our own country — and that perhaps, somehow, for some reason, Ukraine did…”
Turner then holds up a Russian active measures report voted on by “all of us”, and quickly points the very first sentence in the report that says “In 2015 Russia began engaging in a covert influence campaign aimed at the presidential election.”
He then says to Hill:
“A little…effort on your part Dr. Hill and you would have known that what you just said was not true, what you had heard. But you felt the need to put it in your 8-page statement before you went on to tell us about a bunch of other things that you heard about other people. no matter how convinced you were of, also which were not necessarily true. One of which was…”
Turner then proceeds to note that in her opening testimony Hill had claimed that Ambassador Sondland met with Giuliani. But he says Sondland testified yesterday that as Ambassador he’d never met with Giuliani, and Giuliani issued a statement saying that he’d never met with Sondland either.
Turner then says to Hill that this is the problem with hearsay, that “no matter how convinced we are Dr. Hill, no matter how much we believe we know that what we’ve heard is true, it is just still what we’ve heard.”
Exactly. Hill sounds like a Democrat who has simply bought into the lies she’s heard from other Democrats and the media about what Republicans believe. As Sean Davis points out…
I'm not sure Fiona Hill understands how much she damaged the credibility of her testimony today when she falsely claimed that HPSCI Republicans denied Russian interference in the 2016 election. In reality, the HPSCI GOP wrote the definitive report on Russian interference.
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) November 21, 2019
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