Following a statement made by Republican Speaker of the House and California Representative Kevin McCarthy, Democrat Adam Schiff of California is incensed.
According to Fox News Congressional Correspondent Chad Pergram, the Speaker has declared his support for a resolution introduced by Reps. Elise Stefanik of New York, the chair of the House Republican Conference, and Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, which would seal the records of the former president’s two impeachments.
“Yeah, because, look, I voted against both impeachments,” McCarthy said to reporters on Friday.
The Speaker claimed the former president’s initial impeachment, which was based on a phone conversation he had with the president of Ukraine, was “not based on true facts.” The second impeachment, based on the incident that occurred at the Capitol on January 6, was “on the basis of no due process.”
The Speaker claimed the former president’s initial impeachment, which was based on a phone conversation he had with the president of Ukraine, was “not based on true facts.” The second impeachment, based on the incident that occurred at the Capitol on January 6, was “on the basis of no due process.”
He then discussed how, in light of information from the IRS whistleblowers and other sources, Democrats should hold President Joe Biden to the same standards they applied to former President Donald Trump.
“So what about at 10:23 today that said an individual had to pay the Biden family and he had to use shell companies to pass it through,” the Speaker said. “Is that more than a phone call?”
“And what about what we just found from Jason Smith, where now you have DOJ warning Hunter Biden ahead of time,” he said. “You now have 51 individuals, who when they had a laptop that had been classified certification — that you’re talking to former CIA directors and others— lie to the American public before an election, saying that that was Russia collusion.”
“At the same time you have a number of items that if I raise the bar to an impeachment with the same level that the Democrats did, I think there’d be a lot of times impeachment,” he said.
Breitbart News adds:
Stefanik’s resolution aims to expunge Trump’s impeachment concerning January 6. She asserts the facts and circumstances upon which the House Democrats impeached Trump did not meet the burden of proving that Trump committed “high Crimes and Misdemeanors.” She also argues the impeachment did not establish that Trump engaged in an “insurrection or rebellion against the United States.”
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Greene’s resolution focuses on Trump’s 2019 impeachment regarding the “perfect phone call.” Greene argues Trump was wrongfully accused of misconduct, demonstrated by the information revealed in the FBI informant document that alleges Joe Biden took a $5 million bribe. The resolution asserts the articles of impeachment did not meet the burden of proof of “high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”
In other Trump news, it was reported on Wednesday that the former president has learned who government prosecutors will ask to testify against him in the case regarding the alleged improper handling of secret data.
The information was disclosed as a result of the Justice Department disclosing “grand jury testimony of witnesses who will testify for the government at the trial of this case” during the discovery phase prior to trial.
Nevertheless, neither a particular list of the witnesses nor a description of their grand jury testimony were included in the DOJ’s brief.
A federal judge overseeing the case on Monday barred the former president from making public any information provided to his legal team by federal prosecutors.
“The Discovery Materials, along with any information derived therefrom, shall not be disclosed to the public or the news media, or disseminated on any news or social media platform, without prior notice to and consent of the United States or approval of the Court,” Federal Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart noted in his order.
Due to the sensitive nature of the information, the order further said that Trump and his legal team are not permitted to release any of the information in “any public filing or in open court without notice to, and agreement from, the United States, or prior approval from the Court.”
Additionally, the defense attorney has been told to retain all of the documents in their possession in a safe place. Additionally, it mandates that all materials must be either returned to the US government or totally destroyed within 90 days of the case’s conclusion.
