05/08/2013
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"This impeachment inquiry is purely political theater designed to help Donald Trump's re-election in 2024."
"You have the fringe extreme right of 20 or so people who do not acknowledge that we're operating, they are operating in divided government with a Democratic Senate and a Democratic president."
"if Hunter Biden committed crimes, he should be held accountable for them. But those crimes and that investigation should remain in the Department of Justice in the court of law."
"I would urge my colleagues on the other side of the aisle who ostensibly are concerned with ethics that they hold a hearing on the dramatic and absurd ethical lapses of Supreme Court Justices."