'The Speaker Lied': As Pelosi Names Impeachment Managers, Trump Hits Back Hard
Trump Issues Fiery Response as Pelosi Names Impeachment Managers: 'The Speaker Lied'
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By Joe Saunders
Published January 15, 2020 at 1:29pm
President Donald Trump’s White House came out swinging.
Within moments of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s long-awaited announcement Wednesday of the seven Democrats who would be in charge of the Trump impeachment trial in the Senate, the White House released a blistering attack on Pelosi and the entire, transparently political impeachment process.
It was a sign of things to come, and an excellent indication of how brutal the upcoming fight is going to be.
“The only thing Speaker Pelosi has achieved with this sham, illegitimate impeachment process, is to prove she is focused on politics instead of the American people,” the White House statement said.
“The Speaker lied when she claimed this was urgent and vital to national security because when the articles passed, she held them for an entire month in an egregious effort to garner political support. She failed and the naming of these managers does not change a single thing. President Trump has done nothing wrong.”
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No one who has followed the impeachment saga closely could disagree with the point about Pelosi’s delay.
When Democrats who control the House of Representatives rammed through their ludicrously amorphous articles of impeachment in December — the “obstruction of Congress” charge alone should have had the Founders spinning in their graves — the rationale for the unseemly speed was that Trump’s continued residence in the White House somehow constituted a danger to the Republic.
Yet, in a burst of cleverness that might well have come from watching too much liberal TV, Pelosi decided to withhold the articles from the Senate for nearly a month, ostensibly to be sure the Senate trial was “fair” but more likely to see if some kind of evidence might drop from the sky that would help the Democrats improve their historically bad case.
As the heavens don’t seem to be helping her, and even Democrats were getting impatient with the delay, Pelosi finally caved.
As The Associated Press reported, the House voted Wednesday to transmit the articles of impeachment to the Senate shortly after Pelosi announced her racially diverse cast of impeachment managers.
To get an idea of the absurdity that’s surrounding a supposedly solemn constitutional process, note that USA Today thought it was important to mention the ethnic affiliations of the House impeachment team:
“Unlike the group of 13 Republicans who managed their case against President Bill Clinton, who were all white men, this group of seven managers consists of three women and four men. Two are members of the Congressional Black Caucus, and one is a member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.”
Imagine the box-checking that went on in the speaker’s suite to get to that lineup.
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