Impeachment Diary: Republicans fight impeachment -- with extra cheese
President Trump called his faithful supporters to arms earlier this week. “Republicans have to get tougher and fight,” he proclaimed.
On Wednesday, they obeyed.
Two dozen House Republicans, led by Rep. Steve Scalise (La.), the No. 2 Republican leader, met in the Capitol basement early in the morning with a new plan to thwart the impeachment inquiry: They would literally use their bodies to stop the proceedings.
“We’re going to try to go in there,” Rep. Matt Gaetz (Fla.), a leading Trump defender, announced to reporters.
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They knew they were breaking House rules in insisting that they be allowed to participate in the session even though they were not among the 100 lawmakers — Democrats and Republicans — who sit on the three committees holding the inquiry. “This may very well be within Chairman Schiff and Nancy Pelosi’s authority to do this,” allowed one of the rebels, Rep. Chris Stewart (Utah).
But they also compromised security and possibly broke the law by barging into the room — a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, or SCIF — with their phones, an easy target for foreign surveillance. “It was a mistake,” Rep. Jim Jordan (Ohio) said of the phones. “It won’t happen again.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/10/23/impeachment-diary-republicans-fight-impeachment-with-extra-cheese/?wpisrc=nl_opinions&wpmm=1
Because the word of a GOP congressman is so credible Gym.
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