Posted on 10/08/2019 7:39:07 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Today, President Trumps White House Counsel, Pat Cipollone, directed an eight-page letter to Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, et al., declining on behalf of President Trump to participate in the Democrats sham impeachment proceeding. The letter, embedded below, is excellent. Some would say, brilliant. It attacks the Democrats constitutionally defective and politically motivated proceeding at its root. You should read it all. This is the letters introduction:
I write on behalf of President Donald J. Trump in response to your numerous, legally unsupported demands made as part of what you have labeledcontrary to the Constitution of the United States and all past bipartisan precedentas an impeachment inquiry. As you know, you have designed and implemented your inquiry in a maimer that violates fundamental fairness and constitutionally mandated due process.
For example, you have denied the President the right to cross-examine witnesses, to call witnesses, to receive transcripts of testimony, to have access to evidence, to have counsel present, and many other basic rights guaranteed to all Americans. You have conducted your proceedings in secret. You have violated civil liberties and the separation of powers by threatening Executive Branch officials, claiming that you will seek to punish those who exercise fundamental constitutional rights and prerogatives. All of this violates the Constitution, the rule of law, and every past precedent. Never before in our history has the House of Representativesunder the control of either political partytaken the American people down the dangerous path you seem determined to pursue.
Put simply, you seek to overturn the results of the 2016 election and deprive the American people of the President they have freely chosen. Many Democrats now apparently view impeachment not only as a means to undo the democratic results of the last election, but as a strategy to influence the next election, which is barely more than a year away. As one member of Congress explained, he is concerned that ifwe dont impeach the President, he will get reelected.1 Your highly partisan and unconstitutional effort threatens grave and lasting damage to our democratic institutions, to our system of free elections, and to the American people.
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Nothing against what you posted ... but my comments were in regard to the post with the map that said the red indicated people that were disenfranchised by impeachment. The cumulative red on that map equates to land not people.
If the red equated to people and representatives ... then we certainly don’t have to worry about impeachment because that would mean the House of Representatives is 90%+ controlled by Republicans. :-)
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