Rep. Seth Moulton Calls On The House To Debate Trump Impeachment

Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) said that the House should be holding the debate on impeaching Trump, even if they don’t vote on it yet.

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Transcript via Fox News Sunday:

WALLACE: Now, there is an argument that Democrats would be in a stronger legal position to get access to documents, to get access to current and former advisors of the president, if you were to open a formal impeachment proceeding — not say you necessarily are even going to impeach the president, but open it and seek all of that under the impeachment — which, as you talked about in the Constitution, it’s in the Constitution, impeachment.

MOULTON: Right.

WALLACE: Do you support that?

MOULTON: I do. In fact, I supported it last year. I think we made a mistake as a part by waiting until the Mueller report came out.

The fact of the matter is that this is our constitutional duty. And a lot of people make the argument that it’s not a politically opportune time for us to proceed with this, to have this debate. Don’t forget, Congress does two things, we debate things and then we vote on them. I’m not saying we should vote on impeachment yet. We don’t even have the full Mueller report. But let’s have that debate. I called that — for — for that a year ago and we should be discussing it because it’s our constitutional duty.

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Impeachment is what Trump wants, so Democrats shouldn’t give it to him

Trump is trying to bait Democrats into impeaching him because he can’t run on his record or his personality, so Donald Trump wants to mobilize Republicans and run on being that Democrats tried to impeach. Attorney General Barr is refusing to turn over any Mueller evidence until Trump is impeached because he is trying to sucker Democrats into taking the next step.
The fastest way for Democrats to screw up the 2020 election would be to impeach Trump now. Impeachment should be used as a last resort. Democrats will win their court cases against Trump. They will get the evidence, and they can do this while keeping impeachment in their back pockets for later.

Trump wants impeachment, which is why Democrats should hold off on giving it to him until they have no other choice, or the evidence leads them there.

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