Is This a Show Trial?

The first one had pretty good ratings the first night when they did it in prime time, people tuned in to see what it was about. Then they went to sa span daytime television, and the radiang crater, they've just collapsed. Because these are not interesting proceedings. Now they're being stage managed by a former a b c newscducer. You can see the tele prompters meating card to the members of the committee. They have a script for chaney and benny thompson and alother so it's not a real hearing where they're getting evidence and responding and asking questions. It's literally a show trial. Have we ever seen this in american