McConnell Slams Dems for the “Most Unfair” Impeachment in History

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has slammed the House Democrats for perpetrating the most “unfair” impeachment inquiry in history.

He also called the “slapdash” impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump as the “most rushed,” and “least thorough” the nation has ever seen.

In a forceful Senate floor speech, McConnell also slammed Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for requesting that the Senate, during its trial, call new witnesses to testify about Trump’s Ukraine dealings.

“It is not the Senate’s job to leap into the breach and search desperately for ways to get to guilty,” McConnell, R-Ky., said. “The fact that my colleague is already desperate to sign up the Senate for new fact-finding… which House Democrats themselves were too impatient to see through, well, that suggests something to me. It suggests that even Democrats who do not like this president are beginning to realize how dramatically insufficient the House’s rushed process has been.”

He also shredded the entire impeachment process by House Democrats as a “slapdash work product” that was “dumped on us in the Senate” and that “has failed to come anywhere near the bar for impeaching a duly elected American president.”

McConnell repeatedly called it “the most rushed,” “most unfair,” and “least thorough presidential impeachment in our nation’s history.”

“By any ordinary legal standard, what House Democrats have assembled appears to be woefully inadequate to prove what they want to allege,” he added.

McConnell was responding to a proposal from Schumer, D-N.Y., Sunday night that called for former national security adviser John Bolton and acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney to be witnesses at an impeachment trial for Trump.

Schumer, in a letter to McConnell, proposed that the Senate subpoena four people who are close to the president or appear to have first-hand knowledge about the delay of about $400 million in military aid to Ukraine: Mulvaney; Bolton; Robert Blair, senior adviser to Mulvaney; and Michael Duffey, associate director for national security at the Office of Management and Budget.

McConnell, on Tuesday, tore into Schumer for his “11-paragraph letter” that was “delivered by way of the news media.”

The “preferable path,” McConnell said, “would have been an in-person conversation, which I nonetheless still hope to pursue.”

Meanwhile, President Trump, in a blistering, no-holds-barred six-page letter sent on Tuesday to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., lambasted the Democrats’ impeachment inquiry as an “open war on American Democracy,” writing that she has violated her oath of office and “cheapened the importance of the very ugly word, impeachment!”

Trump specifically hammered Pelosi for daring “to invoke the Founding Fathers in pursuit of this election-nullification scheme,” and “even worse,” for “offending Americans of faith by continually saying ‘I pray for the President,’ when you know this statement is not true, unless it is meant in a negative sense.”