Brooks: ‘I Was Wrong’ to Say We Should Get Impeachment Done Quickly to Get to COVID Relief

On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that he was wrong to want to get the impeachment trial out of the way quickly to work on the coronavirus relief bill, and that he was “struck by how moved I was, how freshly angered, how much I learned, how much it really grabbed the nation’s attention.”

Brooks said, “I was sort of pooh-poohing it. My head was very much in the COVID relief bill. And I was like, let’s get this impeachment out of the way as fast as we can so we can work on what really needs to be worked on. And I think I was wrong about that. I was struck by how moved I was, how freshly angered, how much I learned, how much it really grabbed the nation’s attention.”

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