Well, you’re wrong but, probably not in doubt...
Schiff’s reading into the Congressonal Record, his version of the Trump/Ukraine telephone call, which Schiff called a “parody” is reminiscent of banana republic courts.
In Woody Allen’s “Banana’s” classic courtroom scene, Mellish (Allen) tries to defend himself from a series of incriminating witnesses, including a reigning Miss America and a middle-aged African-American woman claiming to be J. Edgar Hoover in disguise.
One of the witnesses does provide testimony favorable to Mellish, but the court clerk, when asked to read back the testimony, replies with an entirely different, wholly unfavorable rendition.