It’s been two years, six months and six days since your correspondent took his seat for the first of a series of hearings that Democrats hoped would end Donald Trump’s presidency.
After a whistleblower reported that Trump had withheld US defence aid to pressure the newly-elected president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, into announcing sham investigations into Joe Biden and his son, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tasked a trusted lieutenant — House intelligence committee chairman Adam Schiff — with quarterbacking the investigation into the then-president’s misdeeds.
