Good evening. We're just days away from what will almost certainly be just the third impeachment

of a U.S. president ever. And what is an issue tonight isn't just the propriety of what

President Trump did, it's the trivialization and debatement of truth. What seems to be

the most prominent defense the president and his defenders are using as of tonight.

I'm John Burman, in Foranderson. Today, the president of the United States talked about

this morning's vote in the Judiciary Committee, a party line affair that sets up a final

vote in the House that looks likely to happen on Wednesday. It is an historic moment with

deep and important implications. Yet the president could only say, it's a witch hunt, it's a

sham, it's a hoax. You're trivializing impeachment, he said.

And about 60 seconds later, the man so concerned with trivializing impeachment and the pursuit

of facts and truth, laid a wopper. He claimed that the favor he was asking of Ukraine in

that July 25th phone call wasn't for him. No, the us he was referring to when he asked

Ukraine's president to quote, do us a favor was actually us the country. That's right,

you and me. Take a listen.

You said, do me a favor. No, it didn't say that. It said, do us a favor our country.

Talking about the past election. Talking about corruption. Kind of torture, don't you

think he wants you to believe he was putting country above self and pursuing a potential

2020 opponent for wholly patriotic reasons? Oh, and when he says he was talking about corruption,

it's worth noting that in two phone conversations with president Zelensky, he never said the

word corruption, not once, never said the word. Incidentally, we'd be remiss if we did point

out that on this Friday the 13th, the day synonymous with bad luck and shady figures, that the

man responsible for pursuing those Biden allegations Rudy Giuliani was back at the White House today.

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