In his opening remarks at the House Intelligence Committee hearing on impeachment Thursday, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) declared that the Democrats have “got caught” making a series of false claims.
“As numerous witnesses have testified, temporary holds on foreign aid occur fairly frequently for many different reasons. So, how do we have an impeachable offense here when there's no actual misdeed and no one even claiming to be a victim?” Nunes said.
“The Democrats have tried to solve this dilemma with a simple slogan, ‘he got caught.’ President Trump, we are to believe, was just about to do something wrong and getting caught was the only reason he backed down from whatever nefarious thought crime the Democrats are accusing him of almost committing. I once again urge Americans to continue to consider the credibility of the Democrats on this committee who are now hurling these charges for the last three years. It's not President Trump who got caught. It’s the Democrats who got caught.”
“They got caught falsely claiming they had more than circumstantial evidence that Trump concluded with Russians to hack the 2016 election,” Nunes continued. “They got caught orchestrating this entire farce with the whistle-blower and lying about their secret meetings with him. They got caught defending the false allegations of the Steele dossier which was paid for by them. They got caught breaking their promise that impeachment would only go forward with bipartisan support because of how damaging it is to the American people.”
“They got caught running a sham impeachment process featuring secret depositions, hidden transcripts, and an unending flood of Democrat leaks to the media. They got caught trying to obtain nude photos of President Trump from Russian pranksters pretending to be Ukrainians. And they got caught covering up for Alexandra Chalupa, a Democratic National Committee operative who colluded with Ukrainian officials to smear the Trump campaign by improperly redacting her name from deposition transcripts and refusing to let Americans hear her testimony as a witness in these proceedings. That is the Democrats' pitiful legacy in recent years. They got caught.”