Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blasted House Democrats for moving forward on an impeachment inquiry against President Trump, and chastised the party for their unwillingness to accept the results of the 2016 presidential election.
“Washington Democrats have been searching for ways to reverse their 2016 election defeat since before President Trump was even inaugurated,” McConnell said in a Tuesday press release. Drawing on the “breathless accusations” of Russian collusion that ultimately fell flat, he claimed the Democratic Party “has been a two-and-a-half-year impeachment parade in search of a rationale.”
“Speaker Pelosi’s much-publicized efforts to restrain her far-left conference have finally crumbled,” the Kentucky Republican continued. “House Democrats cannot help themselves. Instead of working together across party lines on legislation to help American families and strengthen our nation, they will descend even deeper into their obsession with relitigating 2016.”
McConnell characterized House Democrats’ actions as “a rush to judgment,” given that Trump just hours earlier agreed to release the transcript of his phone call with the Ukrainian president, which features as the centerpiece of the inquiry.
“It simply confirms that House Democrats’ priority is not making life better for the American people but their nearly three-year-old fixation on impeachment,” McConnell concluded.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi agreed to open an impeachment inquiry after a whistleblower from the intelligence community reportedly filed a complaint alleging that Trump urged the Ukrainian president to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff threw his support behind impeachment Sunday, but conceded that there is “no chance” the Republican-controlled Senate will convict the president and remove him from office.
