As the impeachment hearings get more and more alarming for
Donald Trump, with damning new evidence emerging every day, there appears to be increasing urgency in the parallel counter-offensives under way by the president’s team in an attempt to defend him.There are attacks against the witnesses giving testimony by Trump and his supporters, including attempts to smear Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman,
Ukraine expert at the National Security Council who this week provided crucial testimony about Trump’s telephone call to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. And there have been the extraordinary scenes of
Congress Republicans breaking into the proceedings and disrupting them.