House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff isn’t going to play games in court with Trump, as his committee is rolling forward with their impeachment investigation.
Schiff told reporters on Monday:
We will not allow the White House to delay our investigation. Any acts of obstruction, any effort to prevent the Congress, and therefore the American people from learning more about the president’s misconduct will merely build a public case for obstruction of Congress by this president. And let’s keep in mind what we have learned in two short weeks, thanks to the courageous testimony of many state department, defense department, and other national security officials.
We have learned that a President Of The United States abused his power to coerce an ally that is fending off Russian occupation of its territory in order to get political dirt on an opponent. Conditioned a White House meeting, and as Mick Mulvaney acknowledged, conditioned military support to fight off an adversary of the United States. Conditioned those things on getting political help in the form of an investigation into one of his opponents. I can understand why the president doesn’t want these witnesses to come forward.
What I find harder to understand is why the Republican members of this body in this house don’t want these witnesses to come forward. Where is their duty to this institution? Where is their duty to the constitution? Where is their respect for the rule of law? This will not be our last president. And as I underscored today, they ought to understand the imperative of a congress to get information from the executive. Without it, we cannot do our jobs.
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Adam Schiff asks House Republicans, "Where is their duty to this institution? Where is their duty to the constitution? Where is their respect for the rule of law?" pic.twitter.com/dXyJCOTDk3
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) October 28, 2019
Chairman Schiff was correct. Republicans don’t care about their duties to the Constitution or the American people. They are only acting to protect Trump and delay the impeachment investigation. If Trump is innocent, Republicans should want to hear from the witnesses, but Trump isn’t innocent. The transcript of the Ukraine call is proof of the president’s guilt.
House Republicans have sold out the constitution and their country to protect Trump, and Chairman Schiff isn’t going to play along with their stall tactics.
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