Saturday, December 7, 2019

They're all in the loop

Republicans are going to start claiming the impeachment is so Nancy Pelosi can be president.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi put her "own selfish political desires" above the needs of Americans by talking about impeachment on Thursday and she does it "over and over again," White House Press Secretary Hogan Gidley said Friday.

"She could have talked about USMCA (the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement) and passing it for farmers and ranchers and autoworkers," Gidley said on Fox News' "Overtime Outnumbered." "She could've talked about fixing our infrastructure that is so badly in need of repair. We are lowering prescription drug costs (but) she didn't."

  Newsmax
White House Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley told Fox News Thursday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's invitation for President Trump to offer "exculpatory" evidence in the impeachment inquiry involving U.S. policy toward Ukraine is proof her party wants to upend the justice system.

Gidley told "The Story" that Pelosi's comments effectively mean Trump is responsible for proving he is not guilty -- an assertion that runs counter to the American mantra of "innocent until proven guilty."

"This is a weird moment in politics," Gidley said. "Because, the speaker of the House -- an elected Democrat -- as they continue to push communism and socialism on the American people, whether it be with health care or taking away your paycheck and giving it to other people, they literally want to upturn and then get rid of the justice system."

  Fox
That's a start.
A national security aide to Vice President Mike Pence submitted additional classified evidence to House impeachment investigators about a phone call between Pence and Ukraine's president, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff revealed Friday.

[...]

In a letter to Pence, Schiff (D-Calif.) asked the vice president to declassify supplemental testimony from the aide, Jennifer Williams, about Pence’s Sept. 18 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, arguing that there is no “legitimate basis” to keep it secret.

“The Office of the Vice President’s decision to classify ‘certain portions’ of the Sept. 18 call … cannot be justified on national security or any other legitimate grounds we can discern,” Schiff wrote to Pence, requesting a response by Dec. 11.

[...]

The letter indicates Williams submitted the supplemental filing on Nov. 26, a week after she testified publicly.

[...]

Pence [...] has refused to turn over a slew of documents that investigators requested in October.

[...]

Schiff has indicated that his panel intends to file “supplemental reports” if investigators obtain new information they believe to be relevant to the impeachment probe.

[...]

A House Intelligence Committee official said that while Williams already discussed the phone call in her closed-door deposition and subsequent public testimony, “declassification of this supplemental testimony will allow the Congress to see further corroborative evidence as it considers articles of impeachment, and provide the public further understanding of the events in question.”

[...]

During her Nov. 7 deposition, Williams testified that on the Sept. 18 call, Pence was simply following up to a Sept. 1 meeting with Zelensky and in advance of a meeting between Trump and Zelensky at the United Nations in New York scheduled for the following week. She described it as a "very positive call" and said there was no mention of any of the investigations that Trump had been asking Zelensky to pursue.
I'm surprised they aren't already saying Pelosi is going after Pence now.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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