House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will reportedly be receiving a letter from the White House challenging her to hold an impeachment inquiry vote.
The California Democrat is expected to get the letter Friday that will essentially be “daring” her to hold the vote on Democrats’ impeachment inquiry into the president, who will reportedly not be cooperating with the probe without a formal vote on the House floor, according to Fox News.
The letter follows correspondence from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who asked Pelosi to halt the impeachment inquiry until certain questions are answered and “equitable rules and procedures” are established.
“Unfortunately, you have given no clear indication as to how your impeachment inquiry will proceed — including whether key historical precedents or basic standards of due process will be observed,” the California Republican wrote in a letter to the Speaker.
“In addition, the swiftness and recklessness with which you have proceeded [have] already resulted in committee chairs attempting to limit minority participation in scheduled interviews, calling into question the integrity of such an inquiry,” McCarthy added.
READ⬇️ I’ve written to Speaker Pelosi to halt the impeachment inquiry until we can receive public answers to the following questions. Given the enormity of the question at hand—impeaching a duly elected president—the American public deserves fairness and transparency. pic.twitter.com/EFKOghyf9w
— Kevin McCarthy (@GOPLeader) October 3, 2019
McCarthy’s letter referenced House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, who is under fire for how he has handled the whistleblower complaint against Trump and his conducting of the impeachment inquiry. The California Democrat was called out Thursday over the closed-door testimony of former US envoy for Ukraine Kurt Volker, who resigned last week.
Pelosi fired back with a letter of her own on Thursday, telling him that “existing rules of the House provide House committees with full authority to conduct investigations for all matters under their jurisdiction.”
“There is no requirement under the Constitution, under House Rules, or House precedent that the whole House vote before proceeding with an impeachment inquiry,” Pelosi added, claiming that she received McCarthy’s letter that morning “shortly after the world witnessed President Trump on national television asking yet another foreign power to interfere in the upcoming 2020 elections.”
She later invoked the Founders in a tweet calling out the loyalty of House Republicans to Trump rather than the Constitution.
The fact that the @HouseGOP’s loyalty is to Trump and not to the Constitution is not going to slow down or impair our ability to keep the republic our Founders envisioned. #TruthExposed pic.twitter.com/AlxphEf8eS
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) October 4, 2019
Former United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, Joe DiGenova told Fox Business host Lou Dobbs that a vote on the House floor is exactly what Pelosi is avoiding because it would allow Republicans to subpoena witnesses.
(Video: Fox Business)
House Minority Whip Steve Scalise has also come out swinging against Democrats and their “baseless impeachment witch hunt.”
Since LITERALLY DAY 1, Democrats have been trying to impeach @realDonaldTrump.
They didn’t have a legitimate reason then, and they don’t have a legitimate reason now.
It’s long past time for Democrats and the liberal media to give up their baseless impeachment witch hunt. pic.twitter.com/gtTYO7xEwV
— Steve Scalise (@SteveScalise) October 3, 2019
Rep. Ralph Norman believes the president is “playing his cards just right” to challenge Pelosi in a letter to take up a vote, telling Fox Business host Trish Regan that the Democrats are facing their “biggest blunder.”
(Video: YouTube/Fox Business)
The president has consistently defended himself against the accusations following the whistleblower complaint about his July phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
There wasn’t ANYTHING said wrong in my conversation with the Ukrainian President. This is a Democrat Scam!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 3, 2019
As president, Trump asserted in another tweet, he has an “absolute right, perhaps even a duty, to investigate or have investigated corruption, and that would include asking or suggesting other countries to help us out!”
He also reacted Thursday to the letter McCarthy had sent to Pelosi, telling the lawmaker “we look forward to you soon becoming Speaker of the House.”
Leader McCarthy, we look forward to you soon becoming Speaker of the House. The Do Nothing Dems don’t have a chance! https://t.co/uWPdGJg99F
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 3, 2019
New text messages revealed that there was no quid pro quo in Trump’s phone call with the Ukrainian leader, as the president has asserted from the start. The messages between Volker, William Taylor, temporary ambassador to Ukraine, and Gordon Sondland, ambassador to the European Union appeared to back the president’s claims that he never asked Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden in exchange for releasing U.S. military aid.
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Originally from New York, Powers graduated from New York University and eventually made her way to sunny South Florida where she has been writing for the BizPacReview team since 2015.
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