Adam Schiff is lying to you: William Taylor edition

Because the coup, er impeachment hearing, is being conducted in secrecy we the people have no idea of what's going on.

That's intentional. Democrats lead by Adam Schiff are purposely hiding the truth so that they can selectively leak comments that distort what the witnesses are really saying.

The latest example is the the US acting ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor.

His opening statement was leaked because it appears to say that there was a quid pro quo for Trump providing aid to Ukraine. But a close reading of even that showed that Taylor had no first hand knowledge of a quid pro quo.

Even if it had it's not clear why a Trump quid pro quo would be bad when the media and the Democrats are defending Biden's quid pro quo--you fire the prosecutor investigating my son or no foreign aid for you.

But the opening statement was designed to mislead.  When questioned by Republicans Taylor admitted that the Ukrainians had no idea that the aid had been held up; ie there couldn't be a threat of a quid pro quo if the Ukrainians thought the money was on the way no matter what.

Because of the Schiff's cone of silence rules, which Democrats are violating by leaking selective things, Republicans can't actually comment on what was said.  However they can comment on what wasn't said:

Rep. Ratcliffe(R-TX) said:

"I found [Taylor] to be very forthright. He had very strong opinions about Donald Trump’s approach to foreign policy. But again, the mainstream media reporting that he provided evidence of a quid pro quo involving military aid is false. I questioned him directly on that. And under [House Intelligence Chairman] Adam Schiff’s rules I can’t tell you what he said, but I can tell you what he didn’t say. And neither he or any other witness has provided testimony that the Ukrainians were aware that military aid was being withheld. You can’t have a quid pro quo with no quo"

The simple reality is that Trump was holding up aid not because of any quid pro quo but because he wanted to make sure the money didn't just go into the pockets of corrupt politicians, you know Ukrainians who acted like Joe Biden and his son Hunter did, and because Trump wanted Europe to pay its fair share.

Democrats are lying to us about this in order to frame Trump.  Demand that Schiff stop holding secret meetings and denying we the people the truth.