Opinion| On Monday, President Trump slammed Michigan Democrat Rashida Tlaib and her allies over their calls for impeachment.
“Impeach for what, having created perhaps the greatest Economy in our Country’s history, rebuilding our Military, taking care of our Vets (Choice), Judges, Best Jobs Numbers Ever, and much more? Dems are Obstructionists!” the President tweeted.
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The President’s tweet came in response to one sent out by National Republican Committee chair Ronna McDaniel.
“Rashida Tlaib continues to obsess over impeachment this morning. Democrats want to impeach @realDonaldTrump because they don’t have any other message heading into 2020 and they’re scared they can’t beat him at the ballot box,” she wrote in a tweet.
Rashida Tlaib continues to obsess over impeachment this morning.
Democrats want to impeach @realDonaldTrump because they don’t have any other message heading into 2020 and they’re scared they can’t beat him at the ballot box.
— Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) May 26, 2019
This past Sunday, Representative Tlaib made an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” She claimed on the air that the Democrats’ effort to impeach the President is moving forward.
When host Chuck Todd questioned why Tlaib and her fellow Democrats pushing for impeachment were unable to attain a House majority in order to back impeachment, she claimed, “I think it is moving toward that. It’s going to demand that.”
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Tlaib claimed that the issue of impeaching the President transcends politics.
“This is not about the 2020 election. It’s about doing what’s right now for our country. This is going to be a precedent that we set when we don’t hold this president accountable to the rule of the law and to the United States Constitution,” the Democratic Representative said.
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Tlaib asserted that reforms she and other House Democrats want cannot pass when “the president of the United States continues to lie to the American people, continues to not follow through on subpoenas and give us the information that we need.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has resisted calls for impeachment, while noting that Trump’s refusal to obey subpoenas from Democrat-controlled House committees creates more impetus from within the party’s ranks to go after Trump.
“The president’s behavior in terms of his obstruction of justice … yes, these could be impeachable offenses,” Pelosi said Thursday, according to Politico.
“If we can get the facts to the American people through our investigation, it may take us to a place that is unavoidable in terms of impeachment or not. But we’re not at that place.”
“Well, I can tell you as one of the newest members of Congress, the traditional Congressional oversight process isn’t working,” Tlaib said on Sunday.
While the Democrat-controlled House is able to draft impeachment articles against President Trump, the GOP-controlled Senate would hold the trial for said articles, where many senators feel Trump would easily take a win.
“I think it would be disposed of very quickly,” South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham stated, as reported by The Hill.“If it’s based on the Mueller report, or anything like that, it would be quickly disposed of.”
Republican Senator John Cornyn of Texas stated that since impeachment isn’t likely, Democrats are doing more talking about it than they are actually working towards doing it.
“It would be defeated. That’s why all they want to do is talk about it,” he stated. “They know what the outcome would be.”
