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Democrats have resorted to focus groups in key battleground states to try and come up with an impeachable charge against President Trump. After throwing around "collusion," "obstruction of justice," and "quid pro quo," they had decided to claim that President Trump committed "bribery" or "extortion." But, Nancy Pelosi can't really explain what the bribery was. Now they are rallying around the term, "attempted bribery." They continue to strike out with middle America.
Don't be surprised if House Democrats never bring up a vote to impeach President Trump. And if they do, it will only be because their leaders are willing to pay the price of seeing some Democrats who were elected in swing districts carried by Trump in 2016 go down to defeat in 2020.
PHOENIX – The first public hearing of the House impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump's phone call to the Ukraine was historic, yes, but two U.S. representatives from Arizona were not impressed.
"Everything the witnesses said yesterday was based on … we're not talking someone who was in the room who told (the panel), we're talking someone who was in the room who told someone else," Republican Andy Biggs said on KTAR News 92.3 FM's Arizona's Morning News early Thursday.
Since the election of President Donald Trump, Democrats have made impeachment their No. 1 goal. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff has finally agreed to let the American public see what has been going on in his closed-door, Soviet-style hearings.
The latest attempt to remove President Trump from office by Democrats rests upon the anonymous complaint of an unidentified government employee.
Having failed in their attempt to tarnish him after their bogus Russian witch hunt (hoax), they wanted desperately to find a catalyst to continue stalking the president.
As the House impeachment inquiry moved to public hearings about President Donald Trump's dealings with Ukraine, Arizona's congressional delegation has largely made clear where they stand on issue.
Here's what the state's nine House members and two senators have said so far.
House Democrats
Rep. Tom O'Halleran: The former Chicago police detective and political moderate has struck a measured tone that isn't surprising for a Democrat holding a district Trump carried in 2016.
As the public awaits Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz's report on alleged FISA abuse ahead of the 2016 election, House Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., theorized that the delay could be due to a broadening investigation.
Arizona's Capitol Hill delegation wants to rename a Department of Veterans Affairs clinic in Gilbert after U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Alexander Conrad, who was killed in action last year.
Conrad, a 26-year-old Chandler resident who had been twice deployed to Afghanistan, was killed in a June 8, 2018, firefight with al-Qaida-aligned al Shabaab militants in Somalia. He was a posthumous recipient of the Purple Heart, Bronze Star with Valor and Meritorious Service Medal.
WASHINGTON—The House Freedom Caucus rose to prominence as a rebellious band of about three dozen Republican lawmakers willing to buck their party establishment to tank legislation—or even topple House speakers—they deemed insufficiently conservative. Now the group has embraced a new role: President Trump's de facto defense team in the impeachment investigation on Capitol Hill.
House Democrats have tried to dress up the pig that is their impeachment effort against President Trump with the lipstick of a resolution putting even more power into the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, both California Democrats.
But there is no specific "high crime" or "misdemeanor" committed by the president. Yet the Democrats persist, like Don Quixote, on their delusional quest. Why?