Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blasted Democrats for the “thinnest, weakest” impeachment in US history and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for her “hemming and hawing” on proceeding.
The Kentucky Republican torched the Democrats in a series of tweets Thursday after Pelosi indicated that she would not be sending articles of impeachment over to the Senate as expected, following the vote in the House Wednesday to impeach President Donald Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
“The prosecutors are getting cold feet in front of the entire country,” McConnell said, accusing Democrats of being “too afraid to even submit their accusations to the Senate and go to trial.”
Last night, House Democrats passed the thinnest, weakest presidential impeachment in American history. Now they’re suggesting they are too afraid to even submit their accusations to the Senate and go to trial. The prosecutors are getting cold feet in front of the entire country.
— Leader McConnell (@senatemajldr) December 19, 2019
Calling out Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer for “demanding that the Senate re-do the House’s homework,” McConnell also took aim at Pelosi for suddenly dragging her feet about sending the articles of impeachment to the upper chamber.
These articles of impeachment are so weak that before they even passed, the Senate Democratic Leader began demanding that the Senate re-do the House’s homework. Now the Speaker is hemming and hawing about whether they’ll even proceed to trial.
— Leader McConnell (@senatemajldr) December 19, 2019
Pelosi told reporters Thursday that she was withholding the articles of impeachment from the Senate only until she was assured of the process for trial under the GOP-led chamber of Congress. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer also indicated that a delay would put pressure on McConnell, citing an op-ed by constitutional lawyer Laurence Tribe.
McConnell mocked Democrats’ “buyer’s remorse about the least fair, least thorough, and most rushed impeachment in American history.”
I am glad that leading Democrats seem to have buyer’s remorse about the least fair, least thorough, and most rushed impeachment in American history. They should. But for the sake of the country, I wish this understanding had dawned on them yesterday.
— Leader McConnell (@senatemajldr) December 19, 2019
Sen. Lindsey Graham also called out Pelosi for the delay game she seemed to be playing, warning that it could become a Constitutional threat.
Lindsey Graham goes off on Pelosi for ‘political cowardice’ if articles of impeachment denied to Senate https://t.co/gUNava0Pcm
— Conservative News (@BIZPACReview) December 19, 2019
In a Senate floor speech Thursday, McConnell again slammed the rushed and unfair House process, adding that Pelosi is “too afraid” to forward “their shoddy work product.”
Later he told reporters it’s “fine with us” if Pelosi doesn’t send the articles of impeachment.
“If the speaker wants to hold on to them, that’s fine with us,” the GOP Senate leader said.
“It’s beyond me how the Speaker and Democratic Leader in the Senate think withholding the articles of impeachment and not sending them over gives them leverage,” McConnell told reporters at the Capitol. “Frankly, I’m not anxious to have the trial … If [Pelosi] thinks her case is so weak she doesn’t want to send it over, throw me into that brier patch.”
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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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