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On the recordJanuary 14, 2020
Let's take a look at the chronological timeline since Donald Trump won the primary. I mean, this movement started immediately after that. You can go to Mark Zaid, the attorney for the whistleblower. You can go on and hear the Members of this body saying: We are going to impeach him. The vile words that came out of one of the Members from Michigan, saying: We are going to impeach this m-effer. Those people shouldn't even be allowed to serve in here with that kind of an attitude and hatred. They set a goal to impeach this President. They didn't have a reason, but they set a goal, and then they searched for that goal. It was the Steele dossier that was completely fabricated, paid for by the Clinton campaign and DCCC, completely dispelled as false, but yet they went down this. They dispelled the Mueller report. They kept going to find something. And then Adam Schiff said: We have irrefutable evidence that this President colluded with the Russians. That turned out to be false. The whistleblower, and the second whistleblower, and I could go on, but you guys have heard enough of that stuff. I want to come back to what our Founding Fathers said. This is Washington's warning to this Republic 223 years ago. The Constitution rightly sets a high bar for impeachment, but the integrity of the process also depends on the ability of legislators to vote their minds independent of party politics.…
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Ted Yoho
Republican · Florida

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