House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said the House must move quickly to impeach President Trump to prevent him from cheating in the next election with “foreign help.”
Schiff, a California Democrat, strongly suggested in a press conference Tuesday that Trump colluded with the Russians to undermine the 2016 election and win the White House. A two-year investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller did not charge Trump with collusion, but Democrats say there is evidence Trump welcomed Russia’s help. Their impeachment articles charge him with seeking Ukraine’s help in investigating the Democrats ahead of the 2020 election.
Democrats are speeding through impeachment, and they will likely vote next week on the two articles announced Tuesday that accuse Trump of abusing the power of his office and obstructing Congress.
“The argument, ‘Why don’t you just wait?’, amounts to this: Why don’t you just let him cheat in one more election?” Schiff said Tuesday, explaining the expedited impeachment effort. “Why not let him have foreign help one more time?”
Schiff said the evidence is clear Trump is trying to influence the 2020 election by seeking information from Ukraine regarding Democrats who may have sought the country’s help investigating Trump’s 2016 campaign. Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, went to Ukraine this week, Schiff said, “seeking to revive the same debunked conspiracy theory promoted at the president’s behest.”
Schiff said Trump’s efforts in Ukraine show the president is acting as if he can do “whatever he wants … including getting foreigners involved in our election.”
News outlets have reported that Ukraine worked to undermine Trump in 2016, but Democrats have been successful in portraying the stories as untrue.
