Mr. Holmes Come Here I Want to See You

Timothy Birdnow

You gotta love this one; Andrew Cuomo made a total fool of himself on live television in the worst screwup since Geraldo's infamous Capone Vault caper.

CNN's Chris Cuomo mocked after attempt to disprove Trump's phone theory with call to mom fails

According to the article:

David Holmes, the political counsel at the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine,testified during Thursday’s impeachment hearingthat he overheard a would-be damning phone call between Trump and European Union Ambassador Gordon Sondland. Holmes said he "could hear the president’s voice through the earpiece of the phone,” which was not on speakerphone.

Trump, in real-time, tweeted his skepticism.

"I have been watching people making phone calls my entire life. My hearing is, and has been, great. Never have I been watching a person making a call, which was not on speakerphone, and been able to hear or understand a conversation. I’ve even tried, but to no avail,” Trump tweeted. "Try it live!”

Well, fools rush in...

CNN’s Cuomo took the president up on the challenge and called his mother during coverage of the impeachment hearing.

"Let's just play with that for a second. Mom can you hear me?” Cuomo asked, without receiving a response from his mother.

"I’m with Dana Bash… can you just say hello? Mom? She probably can’t hear me,” Cuomo said as he struggled to hear whether or not his mother could hear him.

Cuomo then put the device on speakerphone.

"Mom, can you hear me?” he asked again.

"I hear you, when you talk to me I hear you,” his mother responded.

The "Cuomo Prime Time” namesake then turned off speakerphone and could no longer hear his mother —just as Trump explained is typically the case.

A frustrated Cuomo then hung up the phone and critics quickly lampooned the moment.

As any lawyer knows, you do not put a witness on the stand unless you know exactly what he or she will say. Cuomo is a lawyer and absolutely should know better.

So Mr. Cuomo has shown that David Holmes was lying, and he did so in a spectacular way.

Boy, I'd hate to be him this morning.

So everyone knows, the title is a play on the first words spoken on the telephone. Alexander Graham Bell called to his assistant (Mr. Watson, which works nicely when pllaying with words here) "Mr. Watson, come here please".

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