90 Miles From Tyranny : Thom Tillis: Why I voted to acquit President Trump

Thursday, February 6, 2020

Thom Tillis: Why I voted to acquit President Trump









Last fall, Nancy Pelosi finally lost control of the radicals in her conference and reluctantly imposed upon the American people a bitter impeachment process that threatened to inflict irreversible damage upon our country. Congressional Democrats have spent the last five months working for themselves and trying to quench their three-year thirst to reverse the results of the 2016 election, when they should have been working for you.

In the end, the Democrats produced a weak case with weak evidence, all while denying the President basic due process rights.

I voted to acquit the President, and I’m glad it’s over so our country can move on and I can get back to work to deliver more results for the people of North Carolina.

Unfortunately, some Democrats and members of the liberal media are not ready to move on and will spend the months leading up to the election in November still trying to convince you that a “cover-up” took place and argue that the President should be impeached again and again until he is removed from office.

How did we get to this point? It started when Nancy Pelosi commenced the impeachment process without even seeing the transcript of President Trump’s phone call with his Ukrainian counterpart. Instead of affording President Trump the due process that he deserved and conducting a transparent investigation, Democrats used secret, closed-door hearings, coordinated selective leaks to the press that they believed advanced their own narrative, and denied the President access to hearings for 71 of the 78 days of the impeachment process.

The Senate trial that I witnessed first-hand proved the weakness and inherent contradictions of their case. While House managers repeatedly declared what a strong and indisputable case they had, they also curiously said that the Senate needed to subpoena witnesses, something the House refused to do themselves. Given the presumption of innocence in America, one can wonder how Democrats could justify a...

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