Ted Cruz Retweeted
Audio/transcript: Senator @tedcruz describes impeachment trial procedure to me in long interview and in as much detail as has been done to date: https://t.co/DgJ2yOGQg5— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) January 14, 2020
TC: I think there’s certainly a significant number of senators who are aware of that. I can’t necessarily say everybody, but that has been an issue. We have discussed it at great length. And you are right that on the face of this, the articles of impeachment voted out by the House don’t meet the bare thresholds the Constitution sets as the standard for impeachment. Impeachment of a president lies when the President has committed treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors. And on the face of it, these articles do not allege treason, bribery or other high crimes or misdemeanors. In fact, they don’t allege any criminal conduct whatsoever. It’s the first time in the history of our country a president has been impeached without an allegation of criminal conduct. They don’t allege the President violated any criminal law. They don’t even allege he violated any civil law. They don’t so much as allege that he had a speeding ticket. And that ultimately, bringing impeachment in those circumstances with no underlying criminal conduct, is an abuse of power by the House Democrats. It is partisan, it is political, and it is not consistent with the threshold for impeachment set out in the Constitution. That’s why I’m confident at the end of this proceeding, and as I said, we’re going to conduct a fair proceeding. We’ll let both sides present their case. But at the end of this proceeding, these claims are going to be thrown out, because they fail to satisfy the Constitutional standard for impeachment.
HH: Now Senator, there are a number of Republicans, and I don’t want to exclude anyone, but John Cornyn is a former member of the Texas Supreme Court. Josh Hawley clerked for the Chief Justice and was the attorney general for Missouri. Mike Lee is a federal court clerk and clerked for Justice Alito. You’ve got Tom Cotton who is not much of a lawyer, but a fine soldier, and he went to HLS. I can say that. And so I’m just curious do the members of the caucus defer to those of you like you who’ve got nine arguments before the Supreme Court and 50 courts of appeal arguments, and actually are deeply-versed in these matters?
TC: Well, look, I mean, every senator believes he or she knows what the Constitution says and has their own judgment. That being said, the Senate is a place where when you have a member that has a particular expertise, whether it is Constitutional Law or Ag policy, those members with that expertise tend to lead. And this is certainly the case here where those of us who have had considerable background in these areas have been much more vocal internally, have been meeting with leadership, have been meeting with the White House, have been working on planning and strategy throughout this entire proceeding, and have also been playing a much more visible role publicly, going out, you know, going round to round with the Chuck Todd’s of the world, going and trying to explain the underlying issues, because sadly, the mainstream media is not going to do that. And so we’ve got to be out and explaining what really is at stake here.
Ted Cruz Retweeted
Audio/transcript: Senator @tedcruz describes impeachment trial procedure to me in long interview and in as much detail as has been done to date: https://t.co/DgJ2yOGQg5— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) January 14, 2020
Duplicitous Ted will join Merky, Whiner, Mittens and some others along with all the Dems to Convict.
Just call the vote on Tuesday and end this insanity!!! It is NOT the job of the defense to bring in witnesses(We all know if they called Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, Schiff, etc, they would NOT be forced to testify) just end this stupidity already we have better things to do than this nonsense
The Mustache has nothing to offer. Nothing. It’s a feint. The dude is either going to say “I supported Trump in his invest into Biden per 15 USC 78dd-118 [Foreign Corrupt Practices Act] or 18 USC 201(b) [Bribery] or Gratuities (18 USC 201(c) and/or Extortion (18 USC 1951); OR he’s going to say “Burn it all”.
Thanks for standing up for your fellow citizens & BOR and asking for Beto “hell yeah we’re gonna take...” O Mao to resign, Ted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU86F44tqDE
Where is Beto? Still hiding in his surrogate mommy Joy’s basement.
Why is Nidal Malik Hasan still alive? He did not hang himself in prison. No justice, no America.
I pledge allegiance to the CRIMINAL STATE....with liberty and _______for all.
