Article snippet: “It was a total disaster for us,” one senior House Democrat aide told Breitbart News. “Too complicated,” another Democrat aide said. “This won’t make sense to regular people,” a third Democrat aide told Breitbart News. Wednesday marked the first public hearing of the Democrats’ formal impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. The hearing opened slowly, taking 93 minutes for the panel’s chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and its ranking member Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) as well as the two witnesses Bill Taylor and George Kent to get through their opening statements. Taylor’s opening statement, which he read in its entirely, was 20-pages-long and contained lots of unclear background information. Kent’s, which was nearly as long and winding, contained numerous history lessons about Europeans helping Americans in the Revolutionary War. The White House was clearly pleased with the lackluster performance by Democrats on Wednesday, as evidenced by two tweets from White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham: A senior administration official told Breitbart News, too, that the Democrats have made a “colossal political mistake” by proceeding with this impeachment push despite the weakness of their case. While Republicans had been focused on process over substance, now with this first public hearing the White House believes the Democrats’ case has been “exposed” as being “extremely weak.” “The White House is very upbeat about how the day went,” the senior administration ... Link to the full article to read more