Pete Ricketts: “Thank you very much to the Senator from Utah for organizing this. My, my, my. What have our majority leader and the…”

“Thank you very much to the Senator from Utah for organizing this. My, my, my. What have our majority leader and the Democrats in the Senate wrought? They have overturned 227 years of precedence that my colleagues have talked about: 21 previous impeachments, all scheduled for trial; 17 came to trial, and the ones that did not was because the person who was to be impeached was either expelled or dismissed prior to the trial. To my colleague from Texas's point about the media being complicit, one of the headlines in Politico that I was told about said the trial lasted only 3 hours. There was no trial. There was no trial. The majority leader decided that he could determine it was unconstitutional and get every single one of his Democrats, along partisan lines, to vote for it. He said it was unconstitutional, did not rise to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors. Let me briefly examine that. Article I sent over to us by the House. I am just going to read the title: ``Willful and Systematic Refusal to Comply With the Law.'' That is article I. Let me tell you about complying with the law. Prior to this administration, the Trump administration had brought illegal crossings down to a 45-year low. What we have seen since then is an explosion of illegal crossings: over 1.7 in the first year of the Biden administration, nearly 2.4 in the second, and nearly 2.5 in the third.…”