David Holmes, political counselor at the US Embassy in Kiev, and Fiona Hill, former senior director for Europe and Russia on the National Security Council, are sworn in before testifying in front of the House Intelligence Committee, as part of the impeachment inquiry into US President Donald Trump on Capitol Hill, in Washington, US, November 21, 2019. (Chip Somodevilla/Pool via Reuters)
The reason no one is taking the US impeachment inquiry seriously is because everybody knows where this is going. The Democrats are going to vote to impeach Trump in the House, and the Republicans are going to vote to acquit in the Senate .