Rep. Jayapal: Trump/Ukraine Call Is ‘a Betrayal of National Security and Our Constitution’
‘At the end of the day, we’re going to need Republicans to decide if they’ll stand up for their constituents and our democracy and the Constitution or stick with the president’
Nov 1, 2019 6:00 PM
By Grabien Staff
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JAYAPAL: "I think there’s a lot of pressure coming from the White House. You see Trump is trying to exert pressure both by bully and by, you know, sort of offering cash for elections and other things that he can help them with. And again, they’ve got to decide whether or not they’ll stand up for the Constitution. You know, just yesterday a former Republican senator from my state Slade Gorton actually came out and said Trump has committed impeachable offenses, Republicans should impeach him. He was one of the people that broke with his party in the Nixon impeachment days. I think that was a very important message because this is a situation where you have a president who has abused the power of the White House to ask a foreign ally to dig up dirt on a political rival, interfere in the 2020 election and hold, as a carrot, aid, hundreds of millions of dollars of aid that Congress already appropriated. That’s just a betrayal of national security and our Constitution."
