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White House Sends Letter Officially Rejecting Cooperation With Dubious ‘Impeachment’ Inquiry
The Stream ^ | October 9, 2019 | The Stream

Posted on 10/09/2019 5:43:00 AM PDT by Heartlander

White House Sends Letter Officially Rejecting Cooperation With Dubious ‘Impeachment’ Inquiry

The White House says it ain’t gonna play Pelosi and Schiff’s “Impeachment” game. In what’s being described as “perhaps the most historic letter the White House has sent,” White House counsel Pat Cipollone tells Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff:

President Trump and his administration reject your baseless, unconstitutional efforts to overturn the democratic processes. In order to fulfill his duties to the American public, the Constitution, the Executive Branch, and all future occupants of the Office of the Presidency, President Trump and his administration cannot participate in your partisan and unconstitutional inquiry under these circumstances.

These circumstances referring to the unprecedented trashing of historic congressional norms.

For example, there has not been a formal vote in the House to open an impeachment inquiry. “In the history of our nation, the House of Representatives has never attempted to launch an impeachment inquiry against the president without a majority of the House taking political accountability for that decision by voting to authorize such a dramatic constitutional step.”

Rep. Schiff is another issue:

In any event, the American people understand that Chairman Schiff cannot covertly assist with the submission of a complaint, mislead the public about his involvement, read a counterfeit version of the call to the American people, and then pretend to sit in judgment as a neutral ‘investigator.’

Schiff lied about his staff meeting with the so-called whistleblower  — who it’s now been confirmed was in a professional relationship with a 2020 candidate.

The letter also lists the assorted ways the House is violating President Trump’s basic due process rights. 

For example, Democrats are not allowing presidential or State Department counsel to be present during the current inquiry. The procedures also do not provide for the”disclosure of all evidence favorable to the president and all evidence bearing on the credibility of witnesses called to testify in the inquiry.”

Nor does Trump have “the right to see all evidence, to present evidence, to call witnesses, to have counsel present at all hearings, to cross-examine all witnesses, to make objections relating to the examination of witnesses or the admissibility of testimony and evidence, and to respond to evidence and testimony.”

There’s another word for what the House is attempting: “Inquisition.”

However, the letter isn’t the only sign the president is lacing up for a furious fight. Former congressman Trey Gowdy, fresh off the House Intelligence committee, has joined Trump’s legal team

Read the White House letter in its entirety:

White House Letter to Speaker


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: trumpukraine
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1 posted on 10/09/2019 5:43:00 AM PDT by Heartlander
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To: Heartlander

Go Trump!


2 posted on 10/09/2019 5:50:12 AM PDT by Ken H (2019 => The House of Representin')
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To: Heartlander

Good. Who did they think was President, George W Bush? Mitt Toast Romney?

Thank you Donald Trump, sir.


3 posted on 10/09/2019 5:51:08 AM PDT by madison10
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To: Heartlander

Impeachment via a secret star chamber is already backfiring on them. I can’t believe nazi pelousey is dumb enough to let this go on.


4 posted on 10/09/2019 5:57:43 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They are openly stating that they intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live.>>>)
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To: Heartlander

It ought to made very clear to Pelosi that evidence now exists that the corruption in the Ukraine involved her and Biden’s sons who were appointed no show high paying jobs to Ukrainian energy companies. Neither had any expertise. It would appear that they were laundering bribes and kickbacks. A thorough investigation and prosecutions are necessary. There must be equal justice under the law.


5 posted on 10/09/2019 5:59:34 AM PDT by allendale (.)
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To: Sirius Lee
already backfiring on them. I can’t believe nazi pelousey is dumb enough to let this go on.

She has no choice. Totally committed radical ideologues are in firm control of that party. They aren't gonna let her back away. Not gonna let Biden or Hillary be the nominee either.


6 posted on 10/09/2019 6:01:43 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: allendale

I suspect Trump will deliver that news soon.

Didn’t he break the Biden story for us?


7 posted on 10/09/2019 6:06:30 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: Sirius Lee

She is certainly dumb enough, but I don’t think that is what is driving this.

I think it’s arrogance.

I think the level of Democrat arrogance is so high that they think they can just dictate to us what is going to happen, and that we are going to accept it.


8 posted on 10/09/2019 6:15:51 AM PDT by chris37 (Monday, March 25 2019 is Maga Day!)
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To: Heartlander

Smack. Down.


9 posted on 10/09/2019 6:16:41 AM PDT by Kharis13
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To: Heartlander

The Dems are left speechless, dumbfounded, stuttering and stammering. Game Set and Match, their lying charade has hit a brick wall.


10 posted on 10/09/2019 6:18:26 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Heartlander

Woo Hoo!!!

Go President Trump!!!

They are trying a coup because they DNC cannot handle not being in control


11 posted on 10/09/2019 6:19:27 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Heartlander

Schiff leads HSCI. “Real impeachment” would be in Old Nads Judiciary Committee.

In short, they are gaslighting the media and radical left just like they did with Russia collusion.


12 posted on 10/09/2019 6:22:53 AM PDT by IamConservative (I was nervous like the third chimp in line for the Ark after the rain started.)
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To: Sirius Lee
I think she got duped by Shitts. I'm betting he never told her that the WB went to his office first....before filing the complaint

and she got that news AFTER she announced that they we're having an impeachment inquiry.

13 posted on 10/09/2019 6:23:04 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: IamConservative
“Real impeachment” would be in Old Nads Judiciary Committee

and he's a competent as a jelly donut.

14 posted on 10/09/2019 6:24:54 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: 1Old Pro

The will try this in the media. What they wanted all along. The will leak out whistle-blowers and “Damning new evidence” for months. The networks will parrot it and try with the Democrats to take down Trump. Will not work. The American people can be a fickle bunch but they can see a con and a political hit job Their stable of candidates is weak and the growing fury by a majority of Americans is growing. I think Pelosi lost the House 2 weeks ago, but now she is looking down the barrel of a 1994 style wipeout. Not to mention Warren v. Trump...Trump gets 350+ EVS and that thing is over once the mountain states come in. The Democrats have set out to sail and lit their ship on fire. There still is a smokey backroom in the Democrat party and they will say “Enough Nancy”. She perisists and expects a stroke or cancer diagnosis for Nancy..wink, wink, with her having to resign.


15 posted on 10/09/2019 6:43:29 AM PDT by pburgh01 (Negan all the MSM)
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To: pburgh01
American people can be a fickle bunch but they can see a con and a political hit job

All this Dems lying and media lying is reinforcing something that I have observed as epidemic among Americans - People are sick of the crap from Washington and SICK of POLITICIANS. Everyone I talk to, people are sick of this nonsense. The beneficiaries are outsiders, hmmm, people like Trump fighting the swamp. This is self evident, but the media an dems persist only making people more disgusted with politics and politicians. The backfire will be loud, the GOP will take back the House.

16 posted on 10/09/2019 6:49:22 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: allendale
It ought to made very clear to Pelosi that evidence now exists that the corruption in the Ukraine involved her and Biden’s sons who were appointed no show high paying jobs to Ukrainian energy companies.

Former New York State majority leader Dean Skelos and his son are now both in federal prison for exactly the same thing. Of course, the difference is that Skelos is a Republican

17 posted on 10/09/2019 7:19:29 AM PDT by KevinB ("Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge." - Charles Darwin)
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To: Heartlander

When the impeachment effort is without legal norms and the person who is attempting to force it through is in line to seize the Presidency it raises the stakes to the level of a Coup attempt and Sedition.

Whoever signs on to this illegal attempt to overthrow the government should be dragged out of Congress and charged with a Felony barring them from any further government service for life and canceling any pensionsm.


18 posted on 10/09/2019 7:56:03 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: GOPJ; Jane Long; MinuteGal; jsanders2001; V K Lee; HarleyLady27; stephenjohnbanker; ...
SNIP--Even as shoo-in 2016 candidate Clinton underhandedly tied Trump to Russia and blamed both for the DNC server hackings,
the Obama admin cunningly downplayed Russian interference in the election so as not to taint Clinton’s widely-expected victory.

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<><> Obama expelled Russian diplomats,
<><> Obama closed Russian diplomatic facilities,
<><> Obama imposed sanctions on Russia’s military intelligence service (GRU)
<><> Obama sanctioned four of GRU's senior officers.

LONG READ HERE https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/10/07/not_all_about_the_bidens_why_trump_has_ukraine_on_the_brain_120635.html

The retaliation by Obama seems to be an attempt to bury all traces of evidence with savage presidential power.

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19 posted on 10/09/2019 8:06:00 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: All
Obama’s CIA Director, John Brennan, sucked up bigtime to get a job with Hillary;
he worked tidbits from Hillary's phony ‘Pee Dossier’ into Obama’s Daily Intel Briefing (PDB).

Brennan and Hillary knew:
<><> Obama was stupid enough to believe it, and,
<><> was too stupid to understand he was reading falsified intel.

Brennan, a fiercely loyal Obama appointee, talked up the dossier to Democratic leaders, and the obedient press,
during the 2016 campaign and fed allegations about Trump-Russia contacts directly to the FBI
while pressuring the bureau to conduct an investigation of several Trump campaign figures.

OBAMA’s CIA Director Brennan’s Perjury Peril.
In his May 2017 testimony before the Congressional intel panel,
<><> Brennan emphatically denied the dossier factored into the Obama intel apparat’s conclusion.
<><> Obama concluded that Russia meddled in the 2016 election “to help Trump’s chances of victory.”
<><> Brennan also swore that he did not know who commissioned the anti-Trump research document,
<><> even though DOJ/FBI senior natl security and counter-intel officials knew that the dossier was funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign.
<><> One official said: “John Brennan did more than anyone to promulgate the dirty dossier. “
<><> “Brennan politicized and effectively weaponized what was patently false intelligence against Trump.”

20 posted on 10/09/2019 8:21:35 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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