. What Trumpers Don’t Want You to Know About the Recent Hearings on Ukraine

. One October 23, 2019, Republicans in the House of Representatives staged a demonstration by invading the offices of the House Intelligence Committee, claiming that the investigation of the allegations against President Trump was being conducted in an unfair manner. As the New York Times reported: “Chanting “Let us in! Let us in!” about two dozen Republican lawmakers — most of whom are not on the committees conducting the inquiry and are therefore not entitled to attend their hearings — pushed past Capitol Police officers to enter the secure rooms of the House Intelligence Committee, which is leading the investigation. Republicans who are on the committees have been in on the hearings from the start and have heard all the witnesses.”

. Read that last sentence again.

. “Republicans who are on the committees have been in on the hearings from the start and have heard all the witnesses.”

. What is happening here is the same thing would happen in any other case in which an allegation of a crime is brought to the attention of law-enforcement authorities. If an allegation is brought to a police department, the detectives would gather information about the alleged incident. The police would complete investigation or else request the assistance of the prosecutor’s office in getting witnesses before a grand jury. When the. investigation is completed, law-enforcement authorities would decide whether or not there was enough evidence to charge anyone with a crime.