Fact, along with Trump, is on trial in the Senate by alexnazaryan
WASHINGTON — “The truth is there,” Rep. Val Demings, D-Fla., said at the opening of the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump, a statement repeated and paraphrased countless times by the seven House impeachment managers, who have treated the case against Trump as self-evidently true based on the facts they have gathered.
Story continues“Right matters,” Schiff told the members of the Senate who are acting as Trump’s jury, repeating himself for emphasis. “And the truth matters. Otherwise we are lost.” #TruthMatters and #RightMatters quickly became trending hashtags on Twitter. “Tribalism isn’t about logic,” Stengel says, “but emotion and cognitive biases.” He adds that “one person’s truth is another person’s lie,” and that trying to convince them that those truths are, in fact, not truths at all could fall victim to the “backfire effect,” in which errant conceptions only harden in the face of contradictory evidence.
At the same time, Democrats appear to be encouraged by a Pew poll released earlier this week that shows, for the first time, a majority of Americans want Trump removed from office. More than two-thirds believe that the impeachment trial should have been the more open proceeding demanded by Democrats, as opposed to the speedy, narrow process now being run by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
There have been a few signs that the case is breaking through. Late on Wednesday evening, for example, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina confronted Schiff in the Capitol — to tell him that he’d argued an impressive case. “He’s well spoken, did a good job of creating a tapestry, taking bits and pieces of evidence and emails and giving a rhetorical flourish, making the email come alive — sometimes effectively, sometimes a little over the top,” Graham later said of his conversation with Schiff.
Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, meanwhile, has insisted that Trump was seriously intent on an investigation of corruption in Ukraine, despite clear evidence that he merely wanted the announcement of an investigation to hurt presidential rival Joe Biden over his son Hunter’s business dealings.
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