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chmentoped_021021&utm_agency=alpha John,
The Democrats are
once again abusing their favorite constitutional clause – the Article
of Impeachment – as a political weapon against President Trump. Their
second round is not only as divisive and hypocritical as the first, but
it is also unconstitutional.
In their final attempt to disqualify
and permanently silence their political opposition, Democrats are
abusing the power of impeachment to prevent a private citizen from
running for public office in the future. This unprecedented and
dangerous action transforms the 150-year precedent of impeachment into
just another partisan political tactic.
The constitutional
provision, cited in the Article of Impeachment, claims the ‘President
shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for…’. The answer lies in
the words themselves. President Trump no longer holds office; the
Senate is presently unable to remove him.
Democrats claim this
action is to punish former President Trump for alleged incitement of
violence. But in a moment exposing the sheer weakness of their case,
Democrats shamelessly edited the video of President Trump's remarks on
January 6th by deleting "peacefully and patriotically make your voices
heard."
The American people remember that this is not the first time
Democrats' impeachment team has selectively edited evidence – it is an
eerie reminder of Adam Schiff's infamous fabricated transcript of
President Trump's call with President Zelensky.
President Trump,
White House staff, administration officials, and Republicans in both
Chambers, including myself, immediately and harshly condemned the
criminals who committed violence and caused tragic loss of life at the
U.S. Capitol, and we demanded they be prosecuted to the fullest extent
of the law.
Meanwhile, Democrats refused to censure, punish, or
impeach members of their own party who are consistently on record
encouraging violence by their own supporters, and have repeatedly
failed to condemn the violence after it occurs.
This double standard
is quite revealing.
When violent left-wing anarchists conducted a
sustained assault on a federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon, Speaker
Nancy Pelosi did not call it an insurrection; she called the federal
law enforcement officers protecting the building "stormtroopers." And
when violent mobs destroyed public property, she said, "People will do
what they do."
The Democratic Attorney General of the State of
Massachusetts Maura Healey stated last year, "Yes, America is burning,
but that’s how forests grow."
Rep. Ayanna Presley, D-Mass.,
declared, "There needs to be unrest in the streets for as long as
there’s unrest in our lives."
While still a California senator, Vice
President Kamala Harris urged supporters to donate to a fund that
bailed violent rioters and arsonists out of jail. She then said of the
violent demonstrations: "Everyone beware. They're not gonna stop before
Election Day in November, and they're not gonna stop after Election
Day...They’re not gonna let up, and they should not."
And let us not
forget that Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., never faced push back or
repercussions from her Democratic Party colleagues for her blatant
incitement of violence against Trump administration officials, when she
yelled to her supporters through a megaphone: "Let’s make sure we show
up wherever we have to show up. And if you see anybody from that
Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station,
you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you
tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere."
Waters later
doubled down on her remarks on MSNBC, saying, "The people are going to
turn on them. They’re going to protest. They’re going to absolutely
harass them."
America faces some of our most significant challenges
in generations – an unprecedented pandemic, an economic crisis, and
deep social divisions.
The Article of Impeachment will do absolutely
nothing to solve these problems and unite the American people. In fact,
Democrats' desperate impeachment will only further divide us.
The
Senate should swiftly reject the Article of Impeachment as
unconstitutional. This nation must not set a precedent where former
public servants, including the President, can be politically persecuted
after completing their term in office.
We must instead focus our
time and energy on delivering real results to the American people.
Elise Stefanik
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