Let’s keep this FReepathon moving and wrap it up, Folks!
Posted on 12/02/2019 1:19:39 PM PST by jazusamo
House Republicans delivered a point-by-point rebuttal Monday to Democrats’ impeachment efforts, claiming in their own report that the evidence collected in the inquiry to date does not support the accusations leveled against President Trump -- or rise to the level of removal from office.
“The evidence presented does not prove any of these Democrat allegations, and none of the Democrats’ witnesses testified to having evidence of bribery, extortion, or any high crime or misdemeanor,” Republicans said in a 123-page report, timed to be made public ahead of the majority Democrats’ impeachment report.
The dueling narratives are emerging following two weeks of House Intelligence Committee hearings, where witnesses detailed their own knowledge of efforts to pressure Ukraine to launch political probes as U.S. aid was withheld over the summer. The committee is set to vote on Democrats’ final report Tuesday – likely to be another party-line moment – before transmitting that document to the Judiciary Committee, which holds its first public hearing Wednesday.
House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Devin Nunes, R-Calif.; Oversight Committee Ranking Member Jim Jordan, R-Ohio; and Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Michael McCaul, R-Texas, penned the minority report, which has been reviewed by Fox News. In it, they broadly defend the president’s actions in the face of accusations he withheld military aid and a White House meeting as leverage to pressure Ukraine to launch a probe involving the Bidens.
“The Democrats’ impeachment inquiry is not the organic outgrowth of serious misconduct; it is an orchestrated campaign to upend our political system,” the Republicans wrote.
They added: “This impeachment inquiry and the manner in which the Democrats are pursuing it sets a dangerous precedent.”
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This isn’t about evidence. It is about attacking Trump.
Exactly...There is no evidence to support impeachment.
Democrats are pursuing it sets a dangerous precedent.”
Except in a dystopian future when there is another rat president the GOP will not turn the tables on them.
Whatever happened to the GOP using house rule to be able to call their own witnesses for a day? I don’t recall any updates on the Nunes letter.
The precedent was set in the Soviet Union.
Commies is as commies does.
Its not even about attacking Trump..its about nullifying the 2016 election because the left did not get the commie outcome they wanted. They were so close with Obama to finally turn America full Communist..they failed because Trump won..getting rid of Trump is small potatoes in their minds, what they want to do is get rid of anyone that even support’s Trump’s ideology that helped him win in the first place
Nu Rulz, be-otches.
Let’s keep this FReepathon moving and wrap it up, Folks!
Pretty well stated there. As has been said before... Before they can get to us, they have to go through Trump.
Keep your powder dry!
The Russia Collusion Hoax saw the same split and this is the same continuation.
PING!
Party line vote. Considering it was a Stalinist show trial, the outcome was always preordained.
Its without credibility and legitimacy. Just another Democrat partisan vendetta.
Surprise, surprise.
Frankly, I’m puzzled. I know the House sets its own rules for these things, but can these rules possibly supersede the legal guarantees in the Constitution?
Everything from the secrecy and supposed anonymity to the prohibition of defense witnesses violates our normal standards of due process. Can’t somebody appeal to the Supreme Court?
How can we have a proceeding with legal effect that violates all of our legal standards of due process?
All good questions, FRiend.
I fully believe both Schiff and Nadler are making it up as they go along and neither have followed precedent set by former impeachment investigations.
These two are going the my way or the highway one sided partisan route and Pelosi is keeping her mouth shut letting them do it.
Someone should tell Peggy Noonan. She had a column a few days ago claiming that “Trump’s defenders have no defense.” A column full of smoke and mirrors devoid of any substance.
That was a disgusting column. But Ol’ Peggy has hated every Republican since Reagan (after Bush gently got rid of her) and she particularly hates Trump. I can’t stand her preachy prissy columns.
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