Jerry Nadler let an impeachment witness who testified in the Judiciary Committees impeachment hearing come forward and question other witnesses after he was done.
Maybe it helped that he has donated in excess of $100,000 to Democrats.
According to The Daily Caller:
The House Judiciary Committee’s second impeachment hearing got testy Monday when Democrats allowed a lawyer who had already served as a witness to return to the bench and cross-examine other witnesses.
Lawyer Barry Berke, who was selected to be the Judiciary Democrats’ counsel, started the hearing by presenting his opinion as a witness as to why President Donald Trump should be impeached. After serving as a witness, Berke was then assigned to question and cross-examine other witnesses at the hearing.
As Berke started questioning the Republican counsel, Steve Castor, Republican Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert interrupted to clarify if a witness could also serve as a questioner under House rules. Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler refused to acknowledge Gohmert’s point of order.
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“How much money do you have to give to get to do that?” Gohmert added, presumably referencing the fact that Berke has donated over $100,000 to Democrats.
Wow. Nadler has his counsel sit a witness, then has him walk up to the dais and grill his fellow witness. Yah, that’s normal and fair… (Not.) What a zoo.
— Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) December 9, 2019
If Nadler was trying to change the narrative that the Democrats have handled this process in a very partisan way it didn’t work. He probably did more to solidify it.
