President Trump says that he won’t send a lawyer to represent him in the House impeachment inquiry because “the whole thing is a hoax.”
With the Judiciary Committee now taking the lead, the House rules allow Trump to get involved. But that isn't likely to mollify the president or his allies, who have railed against the proceedings as biased and unfair since House SpeakerRepublicans blasted House Intelligence Committee Chairman, D-Calif., for conducting depositions behind closed doors that excluded Trump's counsel, and for rejecting some of the GOP-proposed witnesses.
"The White House is currently reviewing Chairman Nadler's letter — but what is obvious to every American is that this letter comes at the end of an illegitimate sham partisan process," White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said in a statement Wednesday. "The President has done nothing wrong and the Democrats know it."Committee ranking member Rep.
The Democrats' report will set forth its findings from its weeks of testimony and evidence gathering and will make recommendations to the Judiciary Committee, according to the rules. But Nadler's panel will make the ultimate decision on whether to recommend articles of impeachment against Trump to the full House.
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