Posted on 12/01/2019 1:52:19 PM PST by jazusamo
On ABC's "This Week" on Sunday, Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA) defended President Trump's July 25 phone call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky and said he believes it to be in the president's advantage for the president's attorneys to participate in the upcoming impeachment hearing in the House Judiciary Committee.
Host Martha Raddatz asked the California conservative if there was anything in his mind regarding the president's involvement with Ukraine that he considers wrong or that concerns him in any way.
"Well he didn't use the delicate language of diplomacy in that conversation," McClintock told Raddatz. "He also doesn't use the smarmy talk of politicians. What you hear from Donald J. Trump is the blunt talk of a Manhattan businessman. He says what he means. He means what he says. That's the only thing that's remarkable about that conversation, but he was entirely within his constitutional authority and was following the statute that Congress adopted in granting aid to the Ukraine."
The National Defense Authorization Act that was passed in 2018 requires the president to certify that a country is rooting out corruption before the president can send that country taxpayer money.
. @martharaddatz : Does anything that Trump did involving Ukraine concern you?
GOP Rep. McClintock says Trump didn't use "delicate language of diplomacy" in Ukraine call but "what you hear from Donald J. Trump is the blunt talk of a Manhattan businessman." https://abcn.ws/2R6v971
Rep. McClintock is a member of the House Judiciary Committee. On Monday, the House Intelligence Committee panel is expected to release their final report on their investigation of Trump's handling of foreign aid to Ukraine. After a 24-hour review period, the report is expected to be approved by a vote along party lines and make its way to the House Judiciary Committee for further consideration.
House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler has given the president a deadline of 5 p.m. EST on December 6th to inform the committee on whether or not the president's attorneys plan on participating in the committee's hearings.
Nadler also wrote a letter to House Judiciary Committee Ranking Republican Doug Collins, similarly giving Collins a deadline to submit any request for presenting evidence and issuing subpoenas. Under House rules, the chair of the Judiciary Committee must approve any such requests made by minority members on the committee. The House Judiciary Committee is holding its first hearing on the constitutional basis for impeachment on Dec. 4.
Rep. McClintock told Martha Raddatz that he did not know whether the president's lawyers plan on participating in the Judiciary Committee hearing scheduled this week, but did say that he thinks "it would be to the president's advantage to have his attorneys there."
"That is his right," McClintock said. "But I can also understand how he is upset with the illegitimate process that we saw unfold in the Intelligence Committee. The big question is going to be whether Jerry Nadler continues that into the Judiciary Committee's hearings or whether he respects the due process rights of the president, not only to be represented by counsel but also to have the unrestricted right to call witnesses in his defense and to confront his accuser."
"So you think they should bring in lawyers," Raddatz asked?
Rep McClintock said, "I think it's to his advantage. Yes."
GOP Rep. Tom McClintock says "it would be to the president's advantage to have his attorneys" at the December 4 impeachment hearing.
"I can also understand how he is upset at the illegitimate process that we saw unfold in the Intelligence Committee." https://abcn.ws/2R6v971
Those politicians and news reader bobble heads don’t get the rough and tumble business world; they’re just kids on a playground compared to someone in the real world.
Well said...Like President Trump I believe Rep Tom McClintock lives in the real world as well.
“He also doesn’t use the smarmy talk of politicians. What you hear from Donald J. Trump is the blunt talk of a Manhattan businessman. He says what he means. He means what he says.”
In other words what Tom is saying is he is like the common folk in this country. Not the lying POS politicians of the government.
Furthermore-there is no honor among thieves. And the whole bunch are lying,thieving bastards in DC.
Martha RATFACE! UGH!
Bump!
I like it. You want your ass kissed go see Obama
So Trump was following the law.
That’s very true- I lived there most of my life and worked around people like him all the time. It may not have been great fun listening to - although Trump actually was a lot more moderate in his language than some - but that was just how they spoke. Actually, the worst were attorneys...the businessmen knew that at the end of the day they had to come to an agreement, so it was bluster. But the attorneys thought they were gods, and no agreement was necessary. In fact, I think they believed it was good to make everybody hate them. (BTW, many of the people in Congress have a law background.)
I was raised in a small PacNW town and the language used daily in Manhattan was a surprise. It was the end of the Mad Men era as well. Quite an eye opener.
How Donald speaks and acts is no surprise. That's NYC standard.
Or to borrow a punchline from one of may favorite old jokes - they don't call a spade a spade. They call it a F’n shovel!
Absolutely! It's something the RATs ignore and don't even like being brought out.
Let’s keep this FReepathon moving and wrap it up, Folks!
Second to Nunes, McClintock is my favorite politician from CA. He zeroes in on issues and describes them in salty and amusing terms. His election-time recommendations for CA ballot initiatives is not only right but it’s hilarious to read.
It was the truth. In my neck of the woods it still is. :)
“they don’t call a spade a spade. They call it a F’n shovel!”
LMAO!
“So Trump was following the law.”
Time for Trump to pivot hard to this. The no QPQ thing seems like a trap.
That’s a hoot, I love it. :^)
I think that's a load of steaming BS.
Attending would only legitimize their little circus. It would be full of traps and questions based on false premises designed to paint the President as their monster.
Screw 'em!
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