Impeachment hearings Wrap with Hill and Holmes testimony
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We ran the numbers: There are 4451 news articles covering this topic. 75% (3333) are left leaning, 18% (799) center, 7% (319) right leaning.
On Thursday, David Holmes, a political counselor to the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine, and Fiona Hill, former White House Europe and Russia Expert, described the U.S.-Ukraine geopolitical relationship and provided insight on efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate President Trump’s political rivals. While a left-leaning article by the New York Times and centrist NPR article describe the testimonies of the two officials and their reception by the court, a right-leaning article by Fox News publicizes Trump’s “Bull-Schiff” merchandise–designed to disparage the inquiry.
A left-leaning article by The New York Times reports that Hill commented on the divergence between “domestic political errand” and “national security foreign policy.” The article also states that “Holmes described in detail an unusual lunch in which he overheard Sondland’s phone call with Trump” as well as Trump’s rebuttal that “a conversation that was not on speaker phone but could still be overheard — was virtually impossible.”
A centrist article by NPR highlights Hill’s denunciation of the “alternative narrative that the Ukranian government is a U.S. adversary, and that Ukraine – not Russia – attacked us in 2016. These fictions are harmful even if they are deployed for purely domestic political purposes.” The article also quotes Hill in her efforts to bridge partisan divides: “When we are consumed by partisan rancor, we cannot combat these external forces as they seek to divide us against each another, degrade our institutions, and destroy the faith of the American people in our democracy.”
In contrast, A right-leaning article by Fox News shifts the narrative from trial proceedings to discuss Trump’s efforts to disparage the inquiry by selling “Bull-Schiff” t-shirts which “show the word "bull" alongside a caricature of Schiff with an extended neck -- an apparent reference to Trump calling him a "pencil neck." His team tweets, “Don’t let Adam Schiff get away with the bull-Schiff Ukrainian investigation.”