Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blasted Democrats for the “thinnest, weakest” impeachment in US history and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for her “hemming and hawing” on proceeding.
The Kentucky Republican torched the Democrats in a series of tweets Thursday after Pelosi indicated that she would not be sending articles of impeachment over to the Senate as expected, following the vote in the House Wednesday to impeach President Donald Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
“The prosecutors are getting cold feet in front of the entire country,” McConnell said, accusing Democrats of being “too afraid to even submit their accusations to the Senate and go to trial.”
Last night, House Democrats passed the thinnest, weakest presidential impeachment in American history. Now they’re suggesting they are too afraid to even submit their accusations to the Senate and go to trial. The prosecutors are getting cold feet in front of the entire country.
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Calling out Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer for “demanding that the Senate re-do the House’s homework,” McConnell also took aim at Pelosi for suddenly dragging her feet about sending the articles of impeachment to the upper chamber.
These articles of impeachment are so weak that before they even passed, the Senate Democratic Leader began demanding that the Senate re-do the House’s homework. Now the Speaker is hemming and hawing about whether they'll even proceed to trial.
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Pelosi told reporters Thursday that she was withholding the articles of impeachment from the Senate only until she was assured of the process for trial under the GOP-led chamber of Congress. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer also indicated that a delay would put pressure on McConnell, citing an op-ed by constitutional lawyer Laurence Tribe.
McConnell mocked Democrats’ “buyer’s remorse about the least fair, least thorough, and most...
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