Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) addressed House Democrats opening investigations into President Donald Trump with Judiciary Committee document requests to 81 agencies and individuals.
Scalise said, “You’re seeing on full display the laying of the foundation to impeach the president by the Democrats. They don’t want to get the facts. They first want to know what their endgame is. Their endgame is to impeach the president whether or not the facts back it up. They’ve cast this wide net. This is beyond a witch hunt. This was all supposed to be about collusion with Russia. No collusion found between Russia and either presidential campaign. What they’re doing is trying to find any excuse to go and appease their base who wants the president impeached. They want to reverse the outcome of the election where the American people said Donald Trump will be our president. Donald Trump is doing a great job, by the way, of following through on his promises as president to get our economy back on track. They aren’t concerned about that. They want to shift back to socialism. The only way they can do it is impeach the president, whether the facts back it up or not. So far, from everything we’ve seen, the facts don’t back it up, but they’ll move there anyway.”
He added, “They’ve already decided where they want to go, and the facts don’t back it up, so they have to keep reaching wider and wider. What they are really trying to do is cover for the fact they have a socialist agenda now. The Green New Deal will eviscerate manufacturing jobs in America. And oh, by the way, they would send them to countries like China and India where they emit five time more carbon to make those same things, so you would actually have more greenhouse gases under the Green New Deal. It’s just a plan to destroy manufacturing in America. They want to abolish ICE. They’ve got this open border idea. It’s a very radical leftist agenda, and they are trying to hide it by going after the president personally.”
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