And also from Sunday night, Steve Hilton, former advisor to British prime minister James Cameron:

Steve Hilton: The truth about impeachment Sunday, Nov 24, 2019



I like Hilton's populist approach on his show, where he is critical of corruption in both parties. He focuses a lot on "the swamp" of campaign finance/lobbyist corruption, and establishment elistism tht infects both parties.

His insights from the impeachment hearings over the last week:
1) According to hearings testimony of both Kurt Volker and Gordon Sondland (quoted) State Department diplomats themselves tried to extort public guarantees from Ukraine they would pursue anti-corruption investigations, to try and change Trump's opinion of giving aid to Ukraine .
2) The State DEepartment and NSC bureaucrats testifying say they are not partisan. But beyond Democrat and Republican partisanship, they clearly are partisans for the establishment elite, in opposition to reformers like Trump and his administration. Territorially lashing out at Trump and anyone who challenges their establishment policy.
3) The lying joint narrative of both House Democrats and their allies in the liberal media, that Trump wanted Ukraine to investigate Biden just because he is a 2020 political rival. When in fact, Trump has very legitimate reasons for wanting Biden investigated, because Biden, the DNC, and the Hillary Clinton campaign interfered in the 2016 election while he was Vice President, manipulated events so that his son was put on the board of Burisma (one of the most corrupt companies in Ukraine, that was also under investigation by Obama officials since 2014). And that Trump's duty as executive is to root out that kind of corruption and enforce our laws, such as investigating Burisma/Biden corruption that was criticized in the news media and the Obama administration, long before Trump was even a presidential candidate. Until they (Dems and the media)changed their narrative and accused Trump of personal motives, for pursuing exactly what they themselves had criticized before Trump was even president! That Trump has abundant legitimate basis for asking Ukraine to investigate The Bidens and Burisma, not because of political opportunism regarding 2020, but because the Joseph Biden had enormous political power over Ukraine and enriched his son with that power, and openly boasted (on video!) about using that power to stop the investigation of his son with the threat of witholding $1.5 billion in U.S. aid to Ukraine. That even The Obama administration and the liberal media had previously investigated before Trump became president. The ironies abound.

I'd also add that regardless of the negative press Biden has received over his son and Ukraine, Biden has been gradually declining in the polls since he entered in April, that Trump never needed to eliminate Biden with dirt from Ukraine, Biden's daily gaffs would eventually eliminate him as a candidate, even if there were no Ukraine story. "Creepy" woman and girl groping Joe, gaff-prone Joe, what city am I in Joe, beat the shit out of violence toward women Joe. The only thing that has kept Biden afloat is how crazy-left the other Democrat candidates are, so that Democrat voters who really have no enthusiasm for Biden cling to him as a moderate who they see as the only prayer of beating Trump in Nov 2020.