Republican feedback about impeachment are coming again to hang-out them.
A brand new supercut video from MSNBC reveals that high GOP lawmakers ― together with Home Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) ― had some very completely different emotions in regards to the course of not too way back when Donald Trump was the topic.
“Our job is to legislate, to not proceed to analyze one thing within the again whenever you can’t discover any cause to question this president,” McCarthy ― then minority chief ― stated throughout Trump’s first impeachment, in 2019.
But McCarthy final week opened an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden primarily based on debunked claims and proof Republican lawmakers have implied, however by no means made public.
In 2019, Jordan complained that Democrats didn’t have the votes “to do that proper.” Final week, after McCarthy opened the inquiry with out a vote, Jordan stated Republicans “don’t want” the votes to maneuver ahead.
In 2020, Stefanik complained that Trump’s impeachment was “very partisan” regardless of 10 GOP lawmakers within the Home crossing social gathering traces to affix the hassle. At this time, she has no downside with an impeachment that doesn’t even have the complete assist of her personal social gathering.
See these feedback and extra within the supercut that aired on “The Mehdi Hasan” present on Sunday night time:
