Want to know what Trump impeachment team member John Ratcliffe was saying in 2019 when the House in fact DID PASS A RESOLUTION authorizing the VERY SUBPOENAS Trump later ignored and said the House *never authorized*? You guessed it: he said (*then*) that the vote was UNNECESSARY.
PS/ Upshot: Trump's lawyers are claiming a resolution was never passed by the House that in fact *was* passed, and are calling that resolution *necessary* when at the time they called it *unnecessary*.
What America is hearing are straight-up lies from the floor of the US Senate.
What America is hearing are straight-up lies from the floor of the US Senate.
PS2/ And here's what *another* top Trump ally in Congress was saying back in 2019 about a resolution Trump's lawyers now simultaneously say didn't pass (it did) and (contra Collins) *is* necessary. These folks don't believe in or mean anything they say.
