Editorial
When does whining stop
and defense begin?
The next phase of the impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump begins today
with the House Judiciary Committee taking over the case.
The panel — chaired by New York’s own Congressman Jerry Nadler — will
consider a report from the House Intelligence Committee based on its investigation and
testimony presented at televised hearings last month. It’s expected that the Judiciary
Committee will accept the report, and use it as the basis for considering articles of
impeachment against the president.
With the Judiciary taking over, President Trump is still complaining on Twitter or in
press gaggles about how he believes the process is unfair. He’s fl at-out wrong.
The House Judiciary Committee has given the president the opportunity to provide
his own counsel at its hearings to question witnesses. The White House, at Trump’s
insistence, rejected it anyway, falsely calling the process unfair.
Before that, the House Intelligence Committee also gave the president’s defenders
ample opportunity to question witnesses. With that opportunity, they chose instead to
besmirch witnesses, propagate debunked conspiracy theories and whine over procedural
semantics.
The president and his defenders can complain about this process all they want — but
they have zero basis to call it unfair.
The House Democratic leadership has played by the book from the start; they know
how disastrous it would be to stray from it, or appear anything less than fair. That hasn’t
stopped Trump and his protectors from whining about it anyway.
So, for the Trump defenders, we ask: When does the whining stop and the defense
begin?
The president of the United States has been accused of withholding aid to a foreign
power in search of dirt against a political rival. It’s the kind of high crime our founders
dreaded would corrupt the presidency and undermine our country’s interests.
This serious accusation has been thoroughly supported through documentation and
testimony provided by multiple witnesses. If the accusation is false, if the witnesses are
wrong, it’s time to prove it — not with name-calling or complaining, but with factual
evidence.
If such evidence exists, it must come forward now.
A president mired in such scandal has a duty to present a legitimate defense of their
actions — if only to at least respect the process and the Constitution which provides it.
If Trump doesn’t have a defense to offer, that’s his problem — and his alone.
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