Political Quotes

“Mr. President, our friends in the House, led by Speaker Pelosi, have adopted a new strategy for handling allegations of wrongdoing. It is a dangerous approach, one in which opinions count for more than the facts and politics trumps everything else, including the law. Yesterday evening, Speaker Pelosi announced that the House is now moving full steam toward impeaching President Trump. When the announcement was made, the only information they had in their hands was press reports--no report of the transcript, no facts, no evidence, no nothing--and that is really all they needed. Any hook, any angle, any straw they might be able to grasp in order to justify this unjustifiable action was good enough for them--hearsay and press reports. House Democrats began this process of impeaching the President based on a so-called whistleblower complaint they hadn't even read, which detailed a call they hadn't seen a transcript of. Meanwhile, we know the media eagerly reported that the ``whistleblower'' didn't even have firsthand knowledge of the situation--something we now know to be true. In other words, the alleged whistleblower doesn't legally qualify as a whistleblower because he or she wasn't there when the conversation took place but, rather, reported something that somebody told somebody else--otherwise known as hearsay. Forget obtaining the evidence, giving people an opportunity to be heard, and the facts considered.…”