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Republicans have for weeks blasted the closed-door impeachment process, but transcripts released this week of private depositions show most GOP lawmakers on the three panels at the center of the probe have simply not shown up.
The low attendance for most committee Republicans paints a very different picture of a party that recently stormed the secure room where the depositions have been conducted, demanding to participate in the process. Republican questioning during these private interviews have been driven by a handful of President Donald Trumps allies and GOP staff.
Conservative Republicans, many closely tied to Trump from the hard-line House Freedom Caucus, have led the GOP questioning, a preview of the coming tumultuous public impeachment process. What is unclear is what role, if any, other Republicans will play.
When theyve asked questions during these depositions, the presidents allies have criticized the impeachment process, dived into witnesses timelines on the Ukraine scandal and resurfaced other controversies, like the so-called Steele dossier.
https://www.rollcall.com/news/congress/gop-questions-private-depositions-foreshadow-public-hearings
spinbaby
(15,090 posts)...they can pretend they dont know whats going on and avoid having to comment on Dumps crimes in public.
iluvtennis
(19,864 posts)democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Eventually they will have NO choice.
usaf-vet
(6,189 posts)calimary
(81,340 posts)not only be VERY noticeable, but they wont escape comment. LOTS of comment.
Zoonart
(11,872 posts)All they are good for is on camera stunts. They, like their "Boss", are all about stuffing their pockets and posturing on the TEE VEE.
They are not at all about the serious job of governance.
they suffer the consequences of being arrogant and ignorant of the facts that are being presented. They are totally ignoring their jobs of protecting and serving the Constitution. Crap just vote them out.
woodsprite
(11,916 posts)yaesu
(8,020 posts)off. They would and have done it to us plenty of times. Don't let them run the public hearings, shut them down, quick.
infullview
(981 posts)Proud Liberal Dem
(24,416 posts)What happens to the rest of us when we don't do our jobs is what should happen to them as well. We'll see what happens in 2020.
SWBTATTReg
(22,144 posts)North Carolina (or South?) w/o all of the reps there. Just go ahead and do it w/o the republican reps (as long as we have a quorum). There is a roll call that's recorded and it'll show that they (the repugs) didn't bother to show up. So, if they didn't bother to show up, so what? Go ahead and vote on impeachment and pass it. Perhaps we can even do this in the Senate if they are not showing up, we can get rump impeached in both chambers if they don't show (House we're okay, the Senate . . . the numbers are a little shaky).
Perhaps both chambers can repeal the 2017 tax cut and jobs bill too, when the repugs are not showing up either?
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)struggle4progress
(118,307 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,356 posts)They are destructive. They do not conserve anything except power to destroy. The Republican party ceased to be conservative long ago; they simply redefined the term, through gaslighting, to cover their coalition of ideological extremists.
Failing to attend the depositions is an intentional act to preserve deniability so they can continue the destruction of government. It's the same reason Lindsey Graham denies having read the transcripts. Without facts, they can freely attack the process.