WATCH: Nadler Confronted over Hypocrisy on Impeachment; Nadler Argues Dems’ Impeachment Case Is so Strong That a Jury Would Convict in ‘Three Minutes Flat’
By Daily Wire. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jerry Nadler, a New York Democrat, was called out by CNN on Sunday over his past comments on impeachment that stand in stark contrast to what he is doing today in pushing for the impeachment of President Donald Trump.
In 1998, during the impeachment of Democratic President Bill Clinton, Nadler said, “There must never be a narrowly voted impeachment or an impeachment substantially supported by one of our major political parties, and largely opposed by the other. Such an impeachment would lack legitimacy, would produce divisiveness and bitterness in our politics for years to come.”
CNN’s Dana Bash played the clip for Nadler on Sunday, saying, “So, right now, you are moving forward with impeachment proceedings against a Republican president without support from even one congressional Republican.”
“Is it fair to say that this impeachment, in your words from back then, will produce divisiveness and bitterness in our politics for years to come?” Bash asked.
“No,” Nadler replied, claiming that Trump was the one who was responsible for the “bitterness and divisiveness into our politics.”
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— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) December 8, 2019
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Nadler Argues Dems’ Impeachment Case Is so Strong That a Jury Would Convict in ‘Three Minutes Flat’
By Townhall. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NJ) on Sunday appeared on CNN’s “State of the Union” to discuss Democrats’ impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. According to Nadler, Democrats “have a very rock-solid case” against the president.
“I think the case we have, if presented to a jury, would be a guilty verdict in about three minutes flat,” he said. “All this nonsense about hearsay – there is considerable direct evidence.”
Nadler claimed the Democrats don’t have more direct evidence because the White House has blocked officials from testifying in the impeachment inquiry, citing executive privilege.
“And it ill behooves a president or his partisans to say, ‘you don’t have enough direct evidence,’ when the reason we don’t have even more direct evidence is because the president has ordered everybody in the executive branch not to cooperate with Congress in the impeachment inquiry, something that is unprecedented in American history and is a contempt of congress by itself,” the Judiciary Committee Chairman said.
“We have a very rock solid case,” @RepJerryNadler says about the House Democrats' impeachment case. “The case we have if presented to a jury would be a guilty verdict in about three minutes flat.” https://t.co/TWeC2mhpgk #CNNSOTU pic.twitter.com/QCYqBEcK1G
— State of the Union (@CNNSotu) December 8, 2019
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