McConnell Remarks On House Democrats’ Impeachment Of Trump

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell delivered remarks on the Senate floor Thursday morning regarding House Democrats’ impeachment vote of President Donald Trump.

In his remarks, Senator McConnell said the Washington Democrats made up their minds to impeach President Trump since before he was even inaugurated.

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McConnell stated this week wasn’t even the first time House Democrats have introduced articles of impeachment, but the seventh time.

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He noted the first article concerns the core events which House Democrats claim are impeachable — the timing of aid to Ukraine, but McConnell adds it does not even purport to allege any actual crime. Instead, he said they deploy this vague phrase, “abuse of power”, to impugn the president’s actions in a general, indeterminate way.

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Now, McConnell state House Democrats have tried to say they had to impeach President Trump on this historically thin and subjective basis because the White House challenged their requests for more witnesses, and that brings us to the second article of impeachment that the House entitled “obstruction of Congress.”

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He added it is not a constitutional crisis for a House to want more information than a president wants to give up and it is a routine occurrence. He said the separation of powers is messy by design.

By the speaker’s own standards, McConnell said she had failed the country.

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McConnell said it will be unprecedented if we agree that any future House that dislikes any future president can rush through an unfair inquiry, skip the legal system, and paralyze the Senate with a trial. He added the House could do that at will under this precedent.McConnell went on to say a political faction in the lower chamber has succumbed to partisan rage.