Today’s debate on the House floor over articles of impeachment against President Trump has been filled with partisan arguments and overblown rhetoric from both sides. But Rep. Ben Ray Lujan made one claim that’s so ludicrous it’s insulting to the intelligence of the millions of Americans watching him.
The New Mexico Democrat and assistant speaker of the House lied through his teeth, claiming that "no one here came to Congress to impeach a president." Rep. Lori Trahan, a Massachusetts Democrat, made a similar claim.
Even assuming, probably too generously, that Lujan or Trahan themselves came to Congress with open minds about impeachment, some of their colleagues are actually on record calling for impeachment regardless of any set of facts. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a popular member of the far-left “squad,” literally proclaimed after her election, “We’re gonna go in and impeach the motherf---er.”
If that’s not coming to Congress with your mind already made up in favor of impeachment, I don’t know what is.
California Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters has been calling for impeachment since 2017, just months after Trump took office. This means she repeatedly supported impeachment before any of the current allegations over Trump’s stalling of Ukrainian foreign aid emerged or the current facts supporting their case. She most certainly came into this session of Congress, which began in January 2019, determined to impeach Trump.
Those are just two examples. I could go on, but that's enough to expose Lujan's claim for the lie that it is.
