President Trump's Twitter account sure is lit up with activity about the "boring" impeachment hearing that he's "not watching."
Trump, the White House says, has simply been too busy on Wednesday to watch the first official hearing in the impeachment inquiry, with White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham saying, "He's in the Oval in meetings. Not watching. He's working."
Still, Politico's Natasha Bertrand noted that there was "no Marine standing guard outside West Wing, as is customary when POTUS is in the Oval." Besides, Trump's account fired off no fewer than 10 retweets about the hearing, The Washington Post's Josh Dawsey observes, sharing talking points from people like Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.). Whether the retweets were being made by Trump himself wasn't totally clear, but apparently, the hearing hasn't been so boring as not to be worth tons of Twitter activity.
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Trump claimed to reporters while in the Oval Office with Turkey's president Wednesday that he's "too busy to watch" the hearing, even as he offered commentary on it at the very same time, saying, "I see they're using lawyers that are television lawyers." He also said he has "not been briefed" on the hearing, nor has he, he seems to be claiming, been briefed on his own Twitter account.
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