Republican North Carolina Rep. Mark Meadows scoffed at House Democrats for moving forward on an impeachment inquiry against President Trump without having seen the evidence.
“So we are all clear what’s happening,” the former chairman of the House Freedom Caucus tweeted Tuesday. “House Democrats are supposedly beginning an impeachment inquiry, and building it on an anonymous secondhand complaint they haven’t seen… which describes a call transcript that they haven’t read.”
“You can’t make it up,” the incredulous congressman added.
So we are all clear what’s happening: House Democrats are supposedly beginning an impeachment inquiry, and building it on an anonymous secondhand complaint they haven’t seen… which describes a call transcript that they haven’t read.
You can’t make it up.
— Mark Meadows (@RepMarkMeadows) September 24, 2019
Meadows’ tweet came about an hour after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced an inquiry of impeachment against the president. An intelligence community whistleblower reportedly filed a complaint alleging Trump pressured the Ukrainian president to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, for potential corruption. Trump denies any wrongdoing and offered to release the transcript of the phone call that features as the centerpiece of the inquiry.
Meadows’ assertion echoed that of Trump himself, who tweeted Tuesday evening, “[The Democrats] never even saw the transcript of the call. A total Witch Hunt!”
They never even saw the transcript of the call. A total Witch Hunt!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 24, 2019
Meadows has been one of the president’s most ardent supporters, having defended him throughout the Mueller investigation. He condemned in strongest terms the precedent Democratic leadership set during the Mueller hearing, tweeting, “They advocated the idea that a person is guilty unless a prosecutor exonerates them. That is NOT our standard in America. It can never be so.”
They misled, misdirected and misrepresented—but never forget perhaps the most remarkable thing Democrats did during the Mueller hearing:
They advocated the idea that a person is guilty unless a prosecutor exonerates them.
That is NOT our standard in America. It can never be so.
— Mark Meadows (@RepMarkMeadows) July 26, 2019
