HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER DEMANDS A HALT TO IMPEACHMENT
PROCEEDINGS
President Trump Stirs Up More Trouble By Saying China Should Also Investigate Former VP Biden.
TruNews,
3 October, 2019
House Minority Leaders Kevin McCarthy has a long list of questions he wants answered, and until they are, he thinks Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi needs to put the breaks on any impeachment inquiries.
In a letter to his follow Californian, which he then shared on Twitter, the House of Representatives’ top Republican demanded the suspension until “transparent and equitable rules and procedures are established to govern the inquiry.” He said those steps are customary in impeachment inquiries.
While only two presidents have been impeached by the House of Representatives—Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton, both of whom were acquitted by the Senate—impeachment investigations are far more common than the mainstream media would have you believe. In fact, there have been four vice presidents and nine Cabinet secretaries who have all faced impeachment inquiries.
President Donald Trump is now the 13th commander in chief to be investigated for potential “high crimes and misdemeanors.” The others, excluding Johnson and Clinton, were:
John Tyler
James Buchanan
Ulysses S. Grant
Herbert Hoover
Harry S Truman
Richard Nixon
Ronald Reagan
George H.W. Bush
George W. Bush
Barack Obama
So, as McCarthy was pointing out, there’s plenty of precedent and history surrounding the impeachment process. He wrote to Pelosi:
As you know, there have been only three prior instances in our nation’s history when the full House has moved to formally investigate whether sufficient grounds exist for the impeachment of a sitting president. I should hope that if such an extraordinary step were to be contemplated a fourth time, it would be conducted with an eye towards fairness, objectivity, andmpartiality.
“Unfortunately, you have given no clear indication as to how your impeachment inquiry will proceed—including whether key historical precedents or basic standards of due process will be observed. In addition, the swiftness and recklessness with which you have proceeded has already resulting in committee chairs attempting to limit minority participation in scheduled interviews, calling into question the integrity of such an inquiry.”
McCarthy has several questions to which he has demanded a public response from Pelosi. These are:
“Do you intend to hold a vote of the full House authorizing your impeachment inquiry?” He noted that in the impeachment of Clinton, the full House had authorized a formal inquiry by a 258-176 vote; in the case of President Nixon, the vote was 410-4.
“Do you intend to involve the full House in each critical step of this inquiry, including defining its scope and establishing its rules and procedures?” In the impeachment of Clinton, the accompanying report stated that because impeachment is delegated solely to the House, the entire chamber should be involved in all critical decisions made at various stages of the process.
“Do you intend to grant co-equal subpoena power to both the chair and ranking member at the committee level?”
“Do you intend to require that all subpoenas be subject to a vote of the full committee at the request of either the chair or ranking member?”
“Do you intend to provide the president’s counsel the right to attend all hearings and depositions?”
“Do you intend to provide the president’s counsel the right to present evidence?”
“Do you intend to provide the president’s counsel the right to object to the admittance of evidence?”
“Do you intend to provide the president’s counsel the right to cross-examine witnesses?”
“Do you intend to provide the president’s counsel the right to recommend a witness list?”
“Do you intend to refer all findings on impeachment to Chairman [Jerry] Nadler and the Judiciary Committee, as prescribed by Rule X of the Rules of the House, or is Chairman [Adam] Schiff in charge of leading this inquiry, as has been reported in the press?”
McCarthy went on to note that a “No” answer to any of those questions would mean the House under Democrat leadership was “acting in direct contradiction to all modern impeachment inquiries of a sitting president.” He added:
“By answering ‘No’ to any of the above, you would be denying the president the bare minimum rights granted to his predecessors. By answering ‘No’ to any of the above, you would create a process completely devoid of any merit or legitimacy.
“At a news conference yesterday you insisted, ‘We have to be fair to the president.’ If those words are to be taken to be sincere, the American people deserve assurance that basic standards of due process will be present. Given the enormity of the questions at hand—the removal of the duly-elected president—anything less than a thorough, transparent, and fair process would represent a supreme insult to our Constitution and the millions of Americans who rely on their voices being heard through our democratic system of government.”
President Trump gave the minority leader’s letter his seal of approval. During a press spray this morning before leaving for a Medicare event in Florida, he told reporters the whistleblower complaint regarding his July phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is “inaccurate.”
Pressed to explain what was inaccurate, the president said:
“[T]he conversation that I had was absolutely perfect. And most people that have read it say the same thing. The whistleblower never saw the — saw the conversation. He got his information, I guess, second- or third-hand. He wrote something that was total fiction. And now, when people see that, they’re not happy.”
The president was later asked about his expectation of Ukraine following his phone conversation with Zelenskiy. Noting that his counterpart had promised to look into the activities of Hunter Biden and his father, former Vice President Joe Biden, he said he expected a “major investigation,” adding:
“They should investigate the Bidens, because how does a company that’s newly formed—and all these companies, if you look at—And, by the way, likewise, China should start an investigation into the Bidens, because what happened in China is just about as bad as what happened with Ukraine.
“So, I would say that President Zelenskiy—if it were me, I would recommend that they start an investigation into the Bidens. Because nobody has any doubt that they weren’t crooked. That was a crooked deal—100 percent. He had no knowledge of energy; didn’t know the first thing about it. All of a sudden, he is getting $50,000 a month, plus a lot of other things. Nobody has any doubt.
“And they got rid of a prosecutor who was a very tough prosecutor. They got rid of him. Now they’re trying to make it the opposite way. But they got rid—So, if I were the President, I would certainly recommend that of Ukraine.”
Reporters immediately jumped on the comment about China—even though the Bidens’ questionable business dealings there were also a matter of public knowledge for some time—and demanded to know if the president had asked Beijing for an investigation. He responded:
“I haven’t, but it’s certainly something we can start thinking about. Because I’m sure that President Xi does not like being under that kind of scrutiny, where billions of dollars is taken out his country by a guy that just got kicked out of the Navy. He got kicked out of the Navy; all of a sudden, he’s getting billions of dollars. You know what they call that? They call that a ‘payoff.’”
In addition to the millions of dollars his private equity firm, BHR Partners, received from Burisma, it also received $1.5 billion from China just days after Hunter Biden joined his father aboard Air Force Two for a visit with President Xi Jinping. During that trip, as was widely reported in the mainstream media, both Bidens met with one of Hunter Biden’s business associates.
Those dealings were the subject of a formal request from then-Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley for an investigation over possible conflicts of interest within the Obama administration. No investigation was ever launched.
Following the president’s comments, which aired on national television, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton weighed in with her own comment.
“Someone should inform the president that impeachable offenses committed on national television still count.
The president refused to say whether or not the White House will comply with any congressional subpoenas, saying instead he would leave it up to “the lawyers.” He did, however, take another swipe at “stone-cold liar” House Intel Committee Chairman Adam Schiff before insisting that he can still work with congressional Democrats on other issues
Wednesday, he shared a video produced by his re-election campaign that trolled former Vice President Biden’s claim that he never spoke with his son about his business dealings. It included a clip from the Nickelback music video for the song “Photograph” in which a picture of both Bidens with an official working for the Burisma gas company in Ukraine has been superimposed.
The former vice president was clearly riled up about it, issuing the following statement:
“Now, let me make something clear to Mr. Trump and his hatchet men and the special interests funding his attacks against me: I’m not going anywhere … You’re not going to destroy me, and you’re not going to destroy my family. I don’t care how much money you spend or how dirty the attacks get.”
The president responded that he thinks the former vice president is “going down,” adding that it’s very likely the press will soon learn that “there are many other countries” that were “scammed” by the Bidens. He added that, ultimately, it’s the U.S. that is getting scammed and that’s “not good.”
(Photo Credit: C-SPAN)
https://www.rt.com/usa/470136-trump-china-investigate-bidens/
https://sputniknews.com/us/201910031076957656-us-house-speaker-pelosi-nixes-gop-request-to-suspend-trump-impeachment-probe/
POLITICAL CHAOS: Volker Controversy Escalates, Trump Impeachment Slipping Out Of Biden’s Hands (VIDEOS)
Fort Russ,3 October, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C./KIEV – One of the highlights of the current Ukrainegate 2.0 is the resignation of US Special Representative for Ukraine Kurt Volker against the backdrop of a scandal with a possible impeachment of Trump because of Ukraine. In parallel with this, the UN General Assembly was held, where Russian Minister Lavrov spoke. But was it parallel at all? Mike Pompeo, whom Lavrov talked with on the sidelines of the General Assembly, is involved in the scandal and, like Volker, is expected to appear before Congress.
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