Article snippet: WASHINGTON — After a disastrous week of impeachment hearings, with a somber parade of witnesses implicating him on national television, President Trump assumed a familiar posture: total denial. “There’s nothing there,” he insisted during a call into the friendly territory of the “Fox & Friends” morning TV show Friday. “I don’t even know these people!” When one of the Fox News hosts delicately brought up the testimony of his own handpicked ambassador saying there was a “quid pro quo” with Ukraine, Trump denied it again. “That’s total nonsense,” he said. The president has long adopted a pit-bull-like political stance, wholly denying any charges against him and often trying to turn witnesses’ own testimony against them. But from “total exoneration” after the Mueller report to the more recent “perfect call” with the Ukrainian president, Trump’s extreme denials can put some of his Republican allies in an uncomfortable position, as they attempt to rebuke sworn testimony with the same stamina and enthusiasm as the president. While he is highly unlikely to be removed from office by the GOP-controlled Senate if the House votes to impeach him, Trump still has to convince voters in the coming election that he did nothing wrong, even as they are exposed to more testimony suggesting the very opposite. Over the past two weeks, a dozen witnesses, wielding copies of text messages, notes, and e-mails, testified that Trump and his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani pushed Ukrain... Link to the full article to read more