Sen. Ted Cruz on Thursday said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's threat to delay forwarding President Trump's impeachment to the Senate sounded more like a gift than a threat.
Mr. Cruz called her threat "Really quite remarkable." "Her threat to the Senate is: Do exactly what I want or I'm not going to impeach the president, I'm not going to send over the impeachment articles," the Texas Republican said to Fox News.
"My attitude is, OK, throw us in that brier patch. Don't send them. That's all right. We actually have work to do." TOP STORIES Adam Schiff: Trump made 'veiled threat' on eve of impeachment vote Trump asks nation to pray over his impeachment, says he's done nothing wrong Pelosi threatens to withhold impeachment articles until Senate guarantees 'fair' trial "Democrats are in a total panic," he said.
House Democrats on Wednesday passed two articles of impeachment against Mr. Trump in party-line votes.
Mrs. Pelosi, California Democrat, said she was delaying sending the articles to the Senate because she did not trust the Republican-run chamber to conduct a fair trial.
Mr. Trump is all but guaranteed acquittal by the Republican-run Senate, where it would take 20 GOP defectors for the Democrats to get the two-thirds majority vote required to convict him.
Mrs. Pelosi, California Democrat, said that she thought Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was "In cahoots" with the White House.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/dec/19/ted-cruz-welcomes-pelosis-delay-sending-impeachmen/
Mr. Cruz called her threat "Really quite remarkable." "Her threat to the Senate is: Do exactly what I want or I'm not going to impeach the president, I'm not going to send over the impeachment articles," the Texas Republican said to Fox News.
"My attitude is, OK, throw us in that brier patch. Don't send them. That's all right. We actually have work to do." TOP STORIES Adam Schiff: Trump made 'veiled threat' on eve of impeachment vote Trump asks nation to pray over his impeachment, says he's done nothing wrong Pelosi threatens to withhold impeachment articles until Senate guarantees 'fair' trial "Democrats are in a total panic," he said.
House Democrats on Wednesday passed two articles of impeachment against Mr. Trump in party-line votes.
Mrs. Pelosi, California Democrat, said she was delaying sending the articles to the Senate because she did not trust the Republican-run chamber to conduct a fair trial.
Mr. Trump is all but guaranteed acquittal by the Republican-run Senate, where it would take 20 GOP defectors for the Democrats to get the two-thirds majority vote required to convict him.
Mrs. Pelosi, California Democrat, said that she thought Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was "In cahoots" with the White House.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/dec/19/ted-cruz-welcomes-pelosis-delay-sending-impeachmen/
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