Trump and his defenders are inventing the reality they want edition.cnn.com

President Donald Trump's impeachment defense has come to this.

His Republican shock troops storm secure hearing rooms, he blasts Republican doubters as "human scum" and his aides slam diplomats who testify about his alleged abuses of power as "radical bureaucrats" at war with the Constitution.
Yet neither Trump nor his White House has come up with a strong counterargument to the potential smoking-gun testimony of the US top diplomat in Ukraine, which is still reverberating through Washington.