Powerful Democrat Representative Jerry Nadler was reportedly convinced the process behind the first impeachment trial of Donald Trump was “unconstitutional” and tried warning House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and fellow Rep. Adam Schiff, only to be rebuffed.
The extraordinary accounting comes from excerpts of a new book titled, “Unchecked: The Untold Story Behind Congress’s Botched Impeachments of Donald Trump.”
Fox News, which obtained the excerpts, reports that Nadler had issues with how Schiff (D-CA) was planning to run impeachment proceedings, particularly concerned that the then-President was not being afforded due process.
The New York Democrat was so concerned, the book’s authors reveal, that he told Schiff the process is “unfair, and it’s unprecedented, and it’s unconstitutional.”
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Nadler: Trump Impeachment is Unconstitutional
Despite Nadler’s initial concerns, House Democrats impeached former President Trump on the basis of a July 25, 2019, phone call between he and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Trump, according to transcripts of the call, asked Zelensky to “look into” Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
Trump maintained that nothing untoward took place during the conversation.
Schiff, who seemed unconcerned about potential constitutional violations of Trump’s rights during the impeachment proceedings, responded to Nadler’s concerns by saying, “I don’t appreciate your tone.”
He also said, “I worry you’re putting us in a box for our investigation.”
Nadler’s warnings persisted.
“If we’re going to impeach, we need to show the country that we gave the president ample opportunity to defend himself,” he demanded.
The Fox News report indicates again that Pelosi and Schiff were less concerned with due process and more concerned that Trump’s lawyers, if allowed to convey their own messages during the proceedings, would hurt Biden’s chances of being elected.
“F*** Donald Trump,” Schiff’s team is accused of saying.
Pelosi, meanwhile, was arguing that Americans weren’t going to understand the complexity of the impeachment charges and that they’d have to carefully construct the narrative.
“We need to make the case more strongly that this is a national security issue,” Pelosi said, according to the book.
“Eighty percent plus say it’s not okay for the president to ask for foreign assistance [in an election] — despite Trump asserting that he can do it,” she added. “I just think we need to make this case to rural voters, evangelicals, and Republicans.”
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Pelosi: If Trump Complains About Due Process, We’ll Ignore Him
The authors of the book contend that Pelosi’s strategy to combat concerns of due process were to simply ignore them.
“Let’s not give them any attention,” she allegedly said adding, “Democrats are giving Trump more rights than the Democrats had under the Clinton impeachment.”
Anybody who witnessed the show that was the impeachment proceedings knows Democrats were more concerned about stopping Trump from being re-elected than anything else.
Schiff, you may recall, argued that impeachment couldn’t wait at that time because Trump cheated in the 2016 presidential election and Democrats couldn’t afford for that to happen again.
“The argument, ‘why don’t you just wait?’ comes down to this,” Schiff claimed. “‘Why don’t you just let him cheat in just one more election? Why not let him have foreign help one more time?'”
Whoa. You heard that correctly. Schiff, very clearly denying the results of the 2016 presidential election.
Some would call that ‘insurrection.’
Schiff also completely fabricated quotes by President Trump during a congressional whistleblower hearing on the Ukraine controversy. Something so absurd even George Stephanopoulus called him out.
And while the proceedings were so “unfair” that Jerry Nadler had to call them out, Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) came to the defense of Pelosi at the time.
“She’s able to do what she feels is right. That’s up to her,” Romney said in defending Pelosi. “At this stage, the process is to continue to gather information but clearly what we’ve seen from the transcript itself is deeply troubling.”
Of course, the narrative from that “deeply troubling” transcript was manipulated by anti-Trump lawmakers and media members from the start.
Nadler, somewhere along the line, went from accusing Schiff of conducting things unconstitutionally, to saying Senate Republicans, by not going along with the sham, were behaving in the same manner.
“If the Senate doesn’t permit the introduction of all relevant witnesses and of all documents that the House wants to introduce, because the House is the prosecutor here, then the Senate is — is engaging in an unconstitutional and disgusting cover-up,” he claimed.
He said that knowing what Democrats had just done in the House was ‘unconstitutional and disgusting.’
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) responded to those comments by alluding to what Nadler had previously argued about the process.
“We’re not going to do a kangaroo court, like they did in the House,” Paul fired back. “The House only produced witnesses that Adam Schiff agreed to.”
https://thepoliticalinsider.com/top-dem-nadler-knew-trump-impeachment-process-was-unconstitutional-but-schiff-and-pelosi-dismissed-him/?source=TPICI
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This is a related article from 2019
Schiff: Impeachment Necessary to Stop Trump In 2020
DECEMBER 11, 2019 AT 10:31AM
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff admitted he and his colleagues could not wait on impeachment because the threat of President Trump’s winning reelection is too great.
Schiff’s comments echo many other Democrats who have either inadvertently or blatantly admitted the sham process is a means to stop the President in 2020.
“The argument, ‘why don’t you just wait?’ comes down to this,” Schiff claimed. “‘Why don’t you just let him cheat in just one more election? Why not let him have foreign help one more time?'”
Wasn’t it just the last presidential election cycle that Democrats were railing against President Trump for possibly not accepting the election results, calling it a threat to Democracy?
Now, we have the resistance party not only failing to accept the results from 2016 and trying to overturn them through impeachment, but also preemptively trying to convince the American people that 2020 is going to be rigged too.
Simply amazing!
RELATED: Congresswoman Admits Democrats Will Impeach Trump Again If He Wins in 2020
Schiff Sounds Like the Squad
Schiff not only joins House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in admitting that impeachment is an effort to defeat the President in 2020, but he also echoes the sentiments of people like extremists Al Green and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Pelosi, the California Congresswoman, admitted recently that her party is pursuing the unpopular sham because “civilization, as we know it today, is at stake in the next election.”
Green, the Texas Democrat who believes articles of impeachment should address slavery, has said he’s “concerned if we don’t impeach this president, he will get re-elected.”
And AOC, the New York socialist and living PSA for staying in school, facilitated this whole process by demanding Pelosi and the Democrats jump when she says ‘impeach!’
“We don’t have the luxury of time,” she explained. “Yes, this is an emergency.”
The emergency, as Schiff has now implied, is that they need Trump out of office before he mops the floor with whatever extremist the Democrats run against him in 2020.
RELATED: Doug Collins Hammers Schiff Over Impeachment No-Show
Trump Fires Back
Schiff went on to let the American people know that they no longer decide elections, an inadvertent admission that Democrats are trying to rig things in 2020.
“Americans don’t get to decide American elections anymore, not by themselves,” Schiff said, alleging that it is actually Trump trying to take that right away from them.
The President, speaking at a rally in Pennsylvania Tuesday night, couldn’t help but take a swipe at the top Democrat.
Trump described Schiff as a “dishonest guy” and a “crooked bastard.”
What better way to describe a man who lied about knowing the identity of the whistleblower and completely fabricated a phone conversation between the President and Ukraine, both pivotal factors in the impeachment inquiry?
https://thepoliticalinsider.com/schiff-impeachment-necessary-to-stop-trump-in-2020/
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