On Sunday morning, Reps. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) appeared on ABC’s “This Week” with George Stephanopolous to make their last plea to Republican House members and Republican senators to vote for the impeachment of President Trump.
When asked if Nadler had “failed [his] own test” to gain bipartisan support from the Republican Party for impeachment, he insisted that it did not matter, claiming, President Trump “ poses a continuing threat to our national security and to the integrity of our elections, to the — to our democratic system itself. We cannot permit that to continue.”
Stephanopolous asked Schiff, “But, apparently, right now, you haven’t persuaded a majority of Republicans that it’s worthy of impeachment. And back in March, you also warned against that. You said: “The only thing worse than putting the country through the trauma of impeachment is putting the country through the trauma of a failed impeachment. If President Trump is overwhelmingly acquitted in the Senate, is that a failure?”
Schiff answered, “No, it isn’t a failure. At least, it’s not a failure in the sense of our constitutional duty in the House.” “This president believes he is above the law and accountable to no one, and that this road was necessary. And I think it very much is,” Schiff continued.
Nadler was asked a similar question regarding Ukraine, where Nadler repeated a talking point he has often made, claiming, “This is a crime in progress against the Constitution and against the American democracy. We cannot take the risk that the next election will be corrupted through foreign interference solicited by the president, which he is clearly trying to do.”
On Saturday, it was revealed that New Jersey Democrat Rep. Jeff Van Drew, who has been staunchly anti-impeachment, will be leaving the Democrat Party, and join the Republican Party amid the Democrats’ starkly partisan impeachment efforts.
Nadler brushed off the news, citing a poll of Democrats in Van Drew’s district opposing Van Drew’s support for impeachment, saying, “But more to that point, this is not political. We should not be looking at those things. This is the defense of our democracy. Do we stay a democratic republic or do we turn into a tyranny?”
On Saturday it was also revealed that Minnesota Democrat Rep. Collin Peterson will also be opposing impeachment, insisting that Trump “has not committed a crime.”
Schiff and Nadler’s dual efforts to try and rally Republicans toward impeachment represent a last-ditch attempt at convincing Republicans to impeach despite a lack of impeachable evidence.
Nadler and Schiff are the ones working in THEIR own self-interest . The smoking gun came when Schiff who WAS supplied with the Ukrainian transcript chose instead to read from his own concocted PARODY….A PARODY before the US Government and the American people??? Seriously??? Time for these two men to step down from office and let our REPUBLIC run the correct way in which it was intended with TRUTH prevailing.
Beware of turncoats , may be just
Trojan horses……