Incoming Democrat Chairman Makes Definitive Case Against Impeaching Trump
By The Federalist. Hours after midterm election night 2018, Mollie Hemingway reported that incoming House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) had impeachment on his mind, cavalierly chatting away on his phone on a train to Washington about the prospect of raising it against President Donald Trump. If his recent words are any indication, he may very well make good on that threat.
Following the release of the sentencing memorandum for the president’s former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, which alleged that Cohen had engaged in campaign finance violations at the behest of then-candidate Trump, Nadler took to the airwaves to lodge his most serious claim yet regarding presidential impeachment. . .
NADLER: Well, they would be impeachable offenses…even though they were committed before the president became president, they were committed in the service of fraudulently obtaining the office. That would be the — that would be an impeachable offense.
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Nadler appears to be applying a dumbfounding double standard brought into stark relief when one reviews his record on the matter of presidential impeachment. Twenty years ago this month, the Democratic congressman from New York took to the House floor to deliver an impassioned defense of then-President Bill Clinton against impeachment.
Nadler began by declaring: “[I]mpeachment is reserved under the Constitution only for abuses of presidential power that undermine the structure or functioning of government, or of constitutional liberty.” (Read more from “Incoming Democrat Chairman Makes Definitive Case Against Impeaching Trump” HERE)
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‘It’s a Waste of Time’: Top Democrat Nadler Says He Will End GOP-Led Probe Into FBI, DOJ
By Fox News Insider. Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), the incoming chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said he will shut down the Republican-led investigation into the FBI and Justice Department’s decision-making during the 2016 election.
Speaking to reporters after he stepped out of the committee’s closed-door interview with former FBI Director James Comey on Friday, Nadler was asked if he plans to end the probe when he takes over as committee chair in January.
“Yes,” Nadler said. “Because it’s a waste of time to start with.”
He expanded, “The entire purpose of this investigation is to cast aspersions on the real investigation, which is Mueller. There’s no evidence whatsoever of bias at the FBI or any of this other nonsense they’re talking about.” (Read more from “‘It’s a Waste of Time’: Top Democrat Nadler Says He Will End GOP-Led Probe Into FBI, DOJ” HERE)
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