{"id":92658,"date":"2019-12-19T07:24:38","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T15:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=92658"},"modified":"2019-12-19T07:24:38","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T15:24:38","slug":"congressman-mcclintock-on-his-opposition-to-the-impeachment-of-the-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=92658","title":{"rendered":"Congressman McClintock on His Opposition to the Impeachment of the President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC&#8230;Nullifying a national election requires an overwhelming case of high crimes, supported by indisputable evidence that the vast majority of the nation finds compelling.  Article I is a made-up crime called \u201cabuse of office.\u201d  It does not charge the President broke any law, but rather that Congress doesn\u2019t like the way he lawfully discharged his constitutional duties.  This would reduce the Presidency to that of a minister serving at the pleasure of Congress, destroying the separation of powers at the heart of our Constitution.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u0qoGe1L7Lo\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Article II is another made-up crime called \u201cobstruction of Congress.\u201d  It means the President sought to defend his constitutional rights and those of his office.  This removes the Judiciary from our Constitution and places Congress alone in the position of defining the limits of its own powers relative to the President.<\/p>\n<p>Our Bill of Rights guarantees every American the right to confront their accuser, to call witnesses in their defense, to be protected from hearsay and to defend these rights in court.  The Democrats have trampled them all in their stampede to impeach.<\/p>\n<p>Yet even in this kangaroo-court, the Democrat\u2019s hand-picked witnesses provided no first-hand knowledge that the President linked aid to action \u2013 in fact, two witnesses provided first-hand knowledge that he specifically ordered NO quid-pro-quo.<\/p>\n<p>Any case that charged no actual crime and offered no legally admissible evidence would be laughed out of court in a heartbeat.  That is the case before us today.  It would redefine the grounds for impeachment in such a way that assures it will become a constant presence in our national life. <\/p>\n<p>Now we know just how reckless is the Democrats\u2019 chant of \u201cResist by ANY means necessary.\u201d  This is a stunning abuse of power and a shameless travesty of justice that will stain the reputations of those responsible for generations to come. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC&#8230;Nullifying a national election requires an overwhelming case of high crimes, supported by indisputable evidence that the vast majority of the nation finds compelling. Article I is a made-up crime called \u201cabuse of office.\u201d It does not charge the President broke any law, but rather that Congress doesn\u2019t like the way he lawfully discharged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Fullscreen-capture-12192019-72336-AM.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}