Let's be clear. Disregarding testimony of people w/ "2nd or 3rd-hand knowledge," while openly condoning the contempt & obstruction of witnesses who have 1st-hand knowledge (& could potentially exonerate the President) is an absolute endorsement of authoritarianism by the GOP.
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Calling the investigation a "sham" while working to undermine it, ridicule it & basing the validity of any allegations on the testimony of people they outright refuse to compel to testify....
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...is allowing the executive branch to determine the terms of oversight by the legislative branch.
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Targeting the whistle blower for exposure, attacking the constitutionally authorized impeachment process, attempting to compel Biden to testify, and smearing the credibility of elected officials and career public servants serves no purpose in uncovering the truth...
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...or preserving the coequal branches of government.
It is not the Democrats or the impeachment inquiry or the whistleblower or the allegations that Republicans view as a sham.
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It is not the Democrats or the impeachment inquiry or the whistleblower or the allegations that Republicans view as a sham.
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It is the right of the Democrats, who have won the majority in the House, to conduct oversight and investigations as they see fit, and within the boundaries of the law.
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If you add up all the caveats and criteria and reliance on statements by the accused and omissions and misrepresentations and feigned outrage and mockery and smears and conspiracy theories and outright refusal to acknowledge fact -
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-what you come away with is unilateral power of the President to do anything he wants, without being subject to any investigations or oversight, or to the authority of either the judicial or legislative branch.
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That's authoritarianism. That is the sum of all of the Republicans demands.
The "sham" they view with such disdain isn't the impeachment inquiry. It's the core democratic processes that allowed it to happen in the first place.
The sham, to them, is Democracy itself.
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The "sham" they view with such disdain isn't the impeachment inquiry. It's the core democratic processes that allowed it to happen in the first place.
The sham, to them, is Democracy itself.
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