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3 verified reports published on November 13, 2019.
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The broad pattern on November 13 was not subtle: Trump’s allies kept trying to call the Ukraine scandal a misunderstanding, but the public record kept pulling the argument back toward pressure, coordination, and damage control. In a better political universe for him, this would have been a day for containment. Instead, it was another day of the story escaping the room.
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The House impeachment inquiry’s first open hearing put fresh evidence on the record tying Trump more directly to the pressure campaign on Ukraine, including testimony about a July call in which the president asked about “the investigations.”
On the same day the Ukraine hearing started, the D.C. Circuit rejected Trump’s bid for an en banc rehearing in the fight over his financial records, keeping congressional access alive and keeping the president on the defensive.
Trump answered questions about the hearings while meeting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a classic overconfident shrug that only emphasized how central the Ukraine story had become.