https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/11/12/1898928/-GOP-s-opening-salvo-on-impeachment-hearings-requires-America-s-absolute-ignorance-of-the-facts
"The GOP's final talking point rests on the idea that simply because everything turned out okay, there was no harm done—yet another exercise in cognitive dissonance. As multiple officials will tell Americans during the hearings, a desperate scramble ensued both inside the administration and among Ukrainians to get the funds released before they would disappear by the end of September. But either way, seeking foreign help in a U.S. election is a criminal offense, not to mention that Trump's actions clearly endangered Ukraine's national security and, therefore, damaged U.S. national security in the process. All of the Republican talking points require a studied aversion to the truth that will fall flat to anyone who actually watches the public hearings with the intention of gathering the facts."
