Cuomo Slams 'Partisan' Republicans for 'Ignoring Facts' Outlined in Impeachment Inquiry

Just hours after embarrassing himself on national TV, CNN's Chris Cuomo parroted Democratic talking points in his closing argument Thursday night. At first, Cuomo merely observed: "to hear it from the diplomats and the Democrats, the situation amounts to a bribery scheme; all of it to help Trump more than to help this country." Cuomo proceeded to play a clip of House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff calling President Trump's actions "beyond anything Nixon did" and asking "why aren't Republicans reeling now?" Schiff answered his own question: "the difference between then and now is not the difference between Nixon and Trump. It's the difference between that Congress and this one." Cuomo seemed to agree with Schiff's analysis: "We have never seen the party of the President to be more partisan in a process like this than we're seeing right now." As Cuomo spoke, the chyron at the bottom of the screen read "No Republicans Budge After All the Facts, Evidence Revealed in 30+ Hours of Public Testimony." Cuomo looked back favorably on Republicans turning on Nixon and a handful of Democrats turning on Clinton before parroting Schiff's talking points: "What Nixon and Clinton were accused of was certainly nothing on the order of the scheme that's been outlined here." The CNN host called Trump supporters "defiant in the face of fact" and accused them of "operating exclusively as Defense Counsel for the President in a manner that we've never seen" and "ignoring the facts for favor" from the President. The sanctimonious Cuomo also declared that "ignoring facts (and) facilitating conspiracy theories about Ukraine interference...cannot be done in good conscience."