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IANS | 09 Oct, 2019
Washington resembles a bullpen
where a verbal shell game is on. This evening Donald Trump fighting his
accusers in what has become a brutal cage match took the knife to the
fight in the prison yard. His counter attack vicious and determined and
monotypical of his style and mien.
His press secretary slammed
his detractors in a no holds barred counter punch, the statement direct
and focused nailing the impeachment inquiry for what he thought it was
worth.
Slamming the Dems for their naked partisan approach to
influence the 2020 polls. Trump's direct attack leaving semantics out of
it stated that the executive which headed would not fall prey to the
exercise of nuanced political theatre even as he fought for the rights
of the American people.
In a confluence of live OTT streaming
shows, the seamy underbelly of Designated Survivor, House of Cards and
Madam Secretary is playing out in the city of intrigue. The press
secretary statement left nothing to chance -
The President has
done nothing wrong, and the Democrats know it. For purely political
reasons, the Democrats have decided their desire to overturn the outcome
of the 2016 election allows them to conduct a so-called impeachment
inquiry that ignores the fundamental rights guaranteed to every
American.
These partisan proceedings are an affront to the
Constitution-as they are being held behind closed doors and deny the
President the right to call witnesses, to cross-examine witnesses, to
have access to evidence, and many other basic rights.
On behalf
of Trump, Pat Cipollone, Counsel to the President, sent a letter to
Speaker Pelosi and Chairmen Engel, Schiff, and Cummings. The letter
demonstrates that the Democrats' inquiry lacks any legitimate
constitutional foundation, any pretense of fairness, and even the most
elementary due process protections. Democrats are pursuing purely
partisan goals, including influencing the upcoming 2020 election.
"In
the process, they are violating civil liberties and the separation of
powers, threatening Executive Branch officials with punishment simply
for exercising their constitutional rights and prerogatives. All of this
violates the Constitution, the rule of law, and every past precedent.
For these reasons, the Executive Branch cannot be expected to, and will
not participate in, this exercise of partisan political theater," the
letter said.
President Trump and his entire Administration will,
however, keep fighting for the American people, growing the economy,
building prosperity, and protecting America's interests at home and
abroad, it said.
In parallel, the White House released an eight
page statement signed by the President's personal counsel Pat A Cipilone
addressed to Trump's current bete noire Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the
chairmen of the various House Committees. The sum and substance being
that he will not back down, come what may, true to his fighting and
impervious persona. The extremely aggressive statement said:
I
write on behalf of Trump in response to your numerous, legally
unsupported demands made as part of what you have labeled-contrary to
the Constitution of the United States and all past bipartisan
precedent-as an "impeachment inquiry." As you know, you have designed
and implemented your inquiry in a maimer that violates fundamental
fairness and constitutionally mandated due process.
For example,
you have denied the President the right to cross-examine witnesses, to
call witnesses, to receive transcripts of testimony, to have access to
evidence, to have counsel present, and many other basic rights
guaranteed to all Americans. You have conducted your proceedings in
secret.
You have violated civil liberties and the separation of
powers by tlu�eatening Executive Branch officials, claiming that you
will seek to punish those who exercise fundamental constitutional rights
and prerogatives. All of this violates the Constitution, the rule of
law, and every past precedent. Never before in our history has the House
of Representatives-under the control of either political party-taken
the American people down the dangerous path you seem determined to
pursue.
Put simply, you seek to overturn the results of the 2016
election and deprive the American people of the President they have
freely chosen. Many Democrats now apparently view impeachment not only
as a means to undo the democratic results of the last election, but as a
strategy to influence the next election, which is barely more than a
year away. As one member of Congress explained, he is "concerned that if
we don't impeach the President, he will get reelected."
Your
highly partisan and unconstitutional effort tlu�eatens grave and
lasting damage to our democratic institutions, to our system offree
elections, and to the American people. For his part, President Trump
took the unprecedented step of providing the public transparency hy
declassifying and releasing the record of his call with President
Zelenskyy of Ukraine.
The record clearly established that the
call was completely appropriate and that there is no basis for your
inquiry. The fact that there was nothing wrong with the call was also
powerfully confirmed by Chairman Schiffs decision to create a false
version of the call and read it to the American people at a
congressional hearing, without disclosing that he was simply making it
all up.
In addition, information has recently come to light that
the whistleblower had contact with Chairman Schiffs office before filing
the complaint. His initial denial of such contact caused The Washington
Post to conclude that Chairman Schiff "clearly made a statement that
was false."
In any event, the American people understand that
Chairman Schiffcannot covertly assist with the submission of a
complaint, mislead the public about his involvement, read a counterfeit
version of the call to the American people, and then pretend to sit in
judgment as a neutral "investigator."
For these reasons,
President Trump and his Administration reject your baseless,
unconstitutional efforts to overturn the democratic process. You run
precedented actions have left the President with no choice. In order to
fulfill his duties to the American people, the Constitution, the
Executive Branch, and all future occupants of the Office of the
Presidency, President Trump and his Administration cannot participate in
your partisan and unconstitutional inquiry under these circumstances.
I. Your "Inquiry" Is Constitutionally Invalid and Violates Basic Due Process Rights and the Separation of Powers.
Your
inquiry is constitutionally invalid and a violation of due process. In
the history of our Nation, the House of Representatives has never
attempted to launch an impeachment inquiry against the President without
a majority of the House taking political accountability for that
decision by voting to authorize such a dramatic constitutional step.
Here, House leadership claims to have initiated the gravest inter-branch
conflict contemplated under our Constitution by means of nothing more
than a press conference at which the Speaker of the House simply
announced an "official impeachment inquiry."
Your contrived
process is unprecedented in the history of the Nation, and lacks the
necessary authorization for a valid impeachment Proceedings, it said.
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