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SC Sen. Tim Scott on Dems' impeachment focus: 'They're pretty concerned' because Americans 'now solidly behind' Trump
He states, "….this is about removing enough senators in the Republican Party in order to take control of the Senate and to rebuke the president for the next four years…"
Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., said Sunday that Democrats have been focused on impeachment because “they’re pretty concerned” due to the fact that “they believe the American people are now solidly behind President Donald Trump.”
Scott appeared on “Fox & Friends Weekend” one day after House impeachment managers filed their brief to the Senate, claiming the evidence against Trump “overwhelmingly” established abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
Scott added that “the most important statement made about this entire impeachment process was made by [Texas] Congressman Al Green when he said if we don’t impeach him, he might win.”
The South Carolina senator also pointed out, “[House Speaker] Nancy Pelosi held the impeachment documents for nearly a month, which means there is no existential threat. There is no national-security threat.”
Scott explained, “I believe the Democrat strategy is not to bring more illumination to the case, but to put a bull’s eye on the back of [Colorado Republican Sen.] Cory Gardner, [Iowa Republican Sen.] Joni Ernst, [Arizona Republican Sen.] Martha McSally, [North Carolina Republican Sen.] Thom Tillis. That is the strategy they’re using to try to win back the Senate,” Scott said, referring to Republican senators facing tough reelection campaigns.
“This is actually not about removing the president, this is about removing enough senators in the Republican Party in order to take control of the Senate and to rebuke the president for the next four years because they’re pretty concerned.”
In Saturday’s 111-page brief, the impeachment managers wrote, “President Trump’s conduct is the Framers’ worst nightmare.”
The brief was the Democrats’ opening salvo in the historic impeachment trial, with House managers arguing Trump used his official powers to pressure Ukraine to interfere in the 2020 U.S. presidential election for personal political gain, then tried to cover it up by obstructing Congress’s investigation into his alleged misconduct.
“The evidence overwhelmingly establishes that he is guilty. … The Senate must use that [impeachment] remedy now to safeguard the 2020 U.S. election, … protect our constitutional form of government and eliminate the threat that the President poses to America's national security,” the brief stated.
Scott said Sunday that Democrats were reacting in such a way because their “greatest fears are coming true” due to Trump’s success.
“The fact is that this president has focused on bringing opportunities to the poorest communities in the nation,” Scott said. “This president has helped bring the minority unemployment rate to record lows for Asians, for African-Americans, for Hispanics.”
Scott noted the country’s 3.5-percent unemployment rate. “Our stock market is going through the ceiling. They are trembling in their boots, so the only thing they have focused on their minds today is not President Trump, it is removing senators from office so that they can have control of the United States Senate.”
He went on to say, “There’s no question that President Trump’s economic agenda has brought more prosperity into the African-American community than we’ve seen in my lifetime.”
“This president is producing the type of results that only say one thing to the African-American community,” Scott continued. “We believe that there is high-potential, incredible people who only needed opportunity and access to those opportunities. President Trump has brought so many of those to the community that I believe that we’re going to have a record turnout on behalf of the president [in November].”
https://www.foxnews.com/media/south-carolina-republican-tim-scott-on-the-impeachment-trial-opening-arguments
RINO Romney’s Popularity Among Republicans, Independents in Utah Plummets
Senator Mitt Romney feels safe. He’s considered a hero in many circles in Utah where his Mormon beliefs and center-right political ideology shine. But he’s making enemies quickly as he continues to subvert President Trump’s agenda and in some cases, even his presidency itself. The latest episode of Romney playing his NeverTrump role surrounds impeachment in which he seems poised to side with Democrats on key votes.
Many of his former fans are taking note.
Romney loses GOP support in Utah after challenging Trump on impeachment
The Morning Consult survey found support for Romney, 72, going down after he called for former national security adviser John Bolton to testify at Trump’s impeachment trial, which began on Thursday.
The poll shows the senator’s approval rating falling among Utah Republicans from September through December 2019, and independents also shifted to disapproving of Romney over the quarter.
In the prior quarter, 65% of Utah Republicans supported Romney, and while a majority still do presently, that number sank to 57%.
On the bright side, he’s making news friends to partially replace the Republicans and Independents who are scorning him. He’s up 4% among Utah Democrats.
The impeachment vote in the House went mostly along party lines with a few Democrats voting against it, joining every Republican in Congress. But in the Senate, there are still people like Romney, Lisa Murkowski, and Susan Collins who may go against the party, the President, and the nation by supporting the Democrats in their ongoing attempt to redo the 2016 election. But this is more than just replaying a past election. Impeachment is about setting the state for the 2020 election as well.
If Mitt Romney sides with Democrats on this unambiguously political impeachment debacle, it’s time for Republicans to renounce him en masse. He should just register as a Democrat and stop this charade that he’s a conscientious conservative.
https://noqreport.com/2020/01/19/mitt-romneys-popularity-among-republicans-independents-in-utah-plummets/
GOP Rep. Doug Collins: Democrat House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer’s Comment That President Trump is Guilty Until Proven Innocent Should Alarm All Americans
Doug Collins: House Democratic leader's remark about letting Trump 'prove innocence' should alarm Americans
House Judiciary Committee ranking member Doug Collins, R-Ga., said Democrats are exposing their true contempt for the Constitution and the individual rights therein with how they are conducting the impeachment of President Trump.
In an interview airing Sunday at 8 p.m. ET on "Life, Liberty & Levin," Collins said Trump was overtly denied the same due process afforded to every other American under the Constitution, adding that House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., made an alarming statement to that effect.
Hoyer, the number-two Democrat in the House, defended the House's impeachment inquiry last month by remarking that Trump was afforded "every opportunity to prove his innocence."
"Instead, he ignored Congressional subpoenas for documents and for testimony by White House officials and ordered his subordinates not to cooperate. This itself is unprecedented," Hoyer claimed.
Collins told host Mark Levin that no American has to prove their innocence – in fact, the burden of proof falls on the opposite party.
"Mr. Hoyer from Maryland … made a very revealing statement for anybody who's concerned about Constitutional rights – and especially for me – even those of my Democratic counterparts who worry about their communities, where they discuss police action and rights being violated," he said.
"It's amazing to me how they're willingly setting that aside to come up to this – Steny Hoyer actually said 'we allowed him every opportunity to come prove his innocence,'."
Collins said the comment was mindblowing in that it seemed that Congress must have "taken a vacation and le[ft] the United States."
"Did we all of a sudden suspend the Bill of Rights?" Collins asked. "Did we suspend any modicum of due process?"
Collins said Democrats like Hoyer are creating a dangerous precedent in that people can effectively accuse other people of offenses and force them to "prove your innocence."
"I don't care if you think this president ought to be impeached or not. This is irrelevant. This should bother everybody," he said.
Collins added that in addition to apparently reversing the burden of proof standard, Democrats have denied Trump the ability to call witnesses or present evidence in his own defense. Instead, Reps. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y. strictly controlled the two House hearings.
However, Collins appeared hopeful that the Republican-controlled U.S. Senate will uphold the rule of law and offer Trump the same rights as any defendant.
"I think the American people are going to go back and see that the senators are going to look at it and the Senate is going to say, 'Wait, this is what we're getting? … This is what you have wasted so much time and now put us in a period of time in which we've got to do something?'" Collins said.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-impeachment-doug-collins-mark-levin-steny-hoyer-innocence
No, just no.
Hair's too light. Clearly not him.