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The GOP’s impeachment report is a series of red herrings

House Republicans released a lengthy report Monday defending President Trump in the face of impeachment proceedings. But several of the arguments in it leave something to be desired.

The more-than-100-page document, crafted to preempt the findings in the report by Intelligence Committee Democrats that is expected to be released publicly Tuesday, is an extensive recitation of arguments that what Trump was doing with regard to Ukraine was not only not impeachable but not even wrong. Yet it relies on a series of straw men, rebutting allegations that aren’t really being made against Trump.

Let’s run through a few of the arguments.

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