you get these witness withes the white house refuses to produce? why don t you just wait until you dmet documents the white house refuses to turn over? and people should understand what that argument really means. it is taken us eight months to get a lower court ruling that don mcgahn has no absoolute right to defy congress. eight months. for one court decision. if it takes us another eight months to get a second court or maybe supreme court decision, people need to understand that is not the end of the process. it comes back to us and we ask questions because he no longer has absolute immunity and then he claims something else, that his answers are privileged and we have to go back to court for another eight or 16 months. the argument, why don t you just wait amounts to this. why don t you just let him cheat in one more election?
has decided not to use the courts to pursue the testimony of trump administration officials who have defied their subpoenas. now, some would argue why don t you just wait. why don t you just wait until you get these witnesses the white house refuses to produce. why don t you just wait until you get the documents the white house refuses to turn over? and people should understand what that argument really means. it has taken us eight months to get a lower court ruling that don mcgahn has no absolute right to defy congress, eight months for one court decision. if it takes us another eight months to get a second court or maybe a supreme court decision, people need to understand that is not the end of the process. it comes back to us, and we ask questions because he no longer has absolute immunity and then he claims something else that his answers are privilege asked we have to go back to court for
a a donald trump is the only president that has created more reasons for impeachment than the congress knows what to do with. he s not being impeached for being identified by federal prosecutors in a criminal case as the person who directd and participated in the crimes that michael cohen committed while paying off porn star to help donald trump win the presidency. he s not can getting impeached for that. discussions of the possible impeachment began in the first year of the trump presidency because the president was so manifestly incompetent and in obvious public violation of the oath of office repeatedly. ezrucline wrote an important piece the case for normalizing impeachment.
and now 1,054 days into the trump presidency, the house of representatives has put it in writing, he betrayed the nation. he s a threat to national security and the constitution, and he will remain a threat to the constitution if allowed to remain in office. all that appears in writing now on this 1,054th day of the trump presidency in articles of impeachment. most days in the lives of the members of house of representatives in the united states senate are a blur of rushing from one meeting to another, attending hearings not exciting enough for television, squeezing time for campaign fund-raising where they can only occasionally feel themselves contributing anything that actually helps move the government in a better direction. most days in the lives of members of congress won t make it into their memoirs.
office appears to mean very little to him. but the articles put forward today will give us a chance to show that we will defend the constitution and that our oath means something to us. house judiciary committee chairman, jerry nadler, signed his name to house resolution 55, quote impeaching donald john trump, president of the united states for high crimes and misdemeanors. the articles of impeachment sums are the case in just over eight pages. two articles of impeachment. one is abuse of power. article two is obstruction of congress. article one says donald j. trump has abused the powers of the pez presidency, in that using the powers of his high office, president trump solicited the interference of a foreign government, ukraine, in the 20 united states president election.