Republicans’ complaints that impeachment inquiry witnesses do not have first-hand information are made in bad faith, like the “man who, having killed his mother and father, throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan”.
Republicans refuse to allow those with direct contact with the president, such as Mike Pompeo, Mick Mulvaney, and John Bolton to testify. Then they complain that other witnesses are inadequate because their information was obtained second or third-hand!
From Wikipedia:
Leo Rosten in The Joys of Yiddish defines chutzpah as “gall, brazen nerve, effrontery, incredible ‘guts’, presumption plus arrogance such as no other word and no other language can do justice to”. In this sense, chutzpah expresses both strong disapproval and condemnation. In the same work, Rosten also defines the term as “that quality enshrined in a man who, having killed his mother and father, throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan”. Chutzpah amounts to a total denial of personal responsibility, which renders others speechless and incredulous … one cannot quite believe that another person totally lacks common human traits like remorse, regret, guilt, sympathy and insight.
From WashingtonPost
Jan 20, 1982 – In one case, a young man who killed both his mother and his sister when he was … The second case involved a boy of 14 who murdered his father and … the mercy of the courts, asking for leniency because he was an orphan.