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On the recordJanuary 13, 2021
Nineteen minutes. Nineteen minutes. Four years ago on inauguration day, January 20, 2017, 19 minutes into President Trump's administration, at 12:19 p.m., The Washington Post's headline was ``Campaign to Impeach President Trump Has Begun.'' And now with just 1 week left, they are still trying. In 7 days, there will be a peaceful transfer of power, just like there has been every other time in our country, but Democrats are going to impeach President Trump again. This doesn't unite the country. There is no way this helps the Nation deal with the tragic and terrible events of last week that we all condemn. Republicans have been consistent. We have condemned all the violence all the time. We condemned it last summer. We condemned it last week. We should be focused on bringing the Nation together. Instead, Democrats are going to impeach the President for a second time, 1 week--1 week--before he leaves office. Why? Why? Politics and the fact that they want to cancel the President--the President who cut taxes, the President who reduced regulations, the President who, prior to COVID, had the greatest economy, lowest unemployment in 50 years, the President who got us out of the Iran deal, put the Embassy in Jerusalem, brought hostages home from North Korea, put three great Justices on the Supreme Court, gave us a new NAFTA agreement, the Abraham Accords, the COVID vaccine, and who built the wall. It is about politics.…
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Jim Jordan
Republican · Ohio
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Jan 13, 2021

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