President Trump will not participate in the first impeachment inquiry before the House Judiciary Committee scheduled for Wednesday.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Representative Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) sent a letter to President Trump specifying a December 6 deadline, saying, “Please provide the committee with notice of whether your counsel intends to participate, specifying which of the privileges your counsel seeks to exercise.”
White House counsel Pat Cipollone informed the Committee Sunday night in a five-page letter explaining the president’s decision because the hearing “does not begin to provide the President with any semblance of a fair process.”
The Judiciary Committee will decide if the information gathered at the recent Intelligence Committee hearings warrant impeachment. The Judiciary Committee will focus on the legal justification for impeachment by interviewing experts on the Constitution.
Democrats urged the president to participate in the hearings.
Representative Val Demings (D-FL) discussed President Trump and the impeachment hearings over the weekend, saying, “If he has not done anything wrong, we’re certainly anxious to hear his explanation.”
Demings also commented on Twitter.
The White House can’t defend the indefensible. #DefendOurDemocracy https://t.co/KNnHRqLjDR
— Rep. Val Demings (@RepValDemings) December 2, 2019
President Trump blasted Democrats for holding more hearings while he will be in London at a NATO summit.
I will be representing our Country in London at NATO, while the Democrats are holding the most ridiculous Impeachment hearings in history. Read the Transcripts, NOTHING was done or said wrong! The Radical Left is undercutting our Country. Hearings scheduled on same dates as NATO!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 30, 2019
Breaking News: The President of Ukraine has just again announced that President Trump has done nothing wrong with respect to Ukraine and our interactions or calls. If the Radical Left Democrats were sane, which they are not, it would be case over!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 2, 2019
The Do Nothing Democrats get 3 Constitutional lawyers for their Impeachment hoax (they will need them!), the Republicans get one. Oh, that sounds fair!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 2, 2019
Representative Doug Collins (R-GA) commented over the weekend.
If the #JudiciaryCommittee votes on articles of impeachment after only a hearing with constitutional scholars, a presentation of Adam Schiff’s report on Schiff’s terms, and a quick markup, that will be a massive failure. pic.twitter.com/3vjU3MTiqA
— Doug Collins (@RepDougCollins) December 2, 2019
According to Fox News, “Fifty percent of independents questioned in an NPR/PBS/Marist poll conducted Nov. 11-15 did not support impeaching and removing Trump from office, with just 42 percent backing such a move.”
A Pennsylvania Democrat voter said to CNN about impeachment, “I am tired, I really am, I am tired of it all.”
Even Democrats in Pennsylvania are tired of Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi wasting time and taxpayer dollars on an impeachment sham!
“I am tired, I really am, I am tired of it all.” pic.twitter.com/LXuSauXVhp
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) November 26, 2019
Given the partisan process by Democrats, President Trump made the right call not to participate in the Judiciary Committee hearings.
