Republicans on Wednesday dug up previous cases of Democratic Home impeachment managers and President Biden utilizing the phrases “combat” or “combat like hell” — one of many key allegations towards former President Donald Trump at his Senate trial.
The Save America PAC’s “Trump Struggle Room” tweeted a “FLASHBACK” screenshot of lead Home supervisor Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) invoking the notion of fight to dam Republican efforts to swiftly substitute the late US Supreme Court docket Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg following her dying in September.
“The GOP rush to interchange Justice Ginsburg is all about destroying the Reasonably priced Care Act, girls’s well being care and reproductive freedom, and the voting rights and civil rights of the individuals,” Raskin tweeted on the time.
“We should combat like hell to cease this assault on well being care and the Structure.”
In one other tweet unearthed by the Trump Struggle Room, Raskin exhorted, “That is our Democracy–combat for it” in 2017 whereas calling for a probe into Trump’s alleged ties to Russia.
A 2019 Atlantic journal interview featured Raskin saying of Trump’s presidency, “Let’s hope for one of the best, be ready for the worst, and go combat like hell for the Structure,” the Trump Struggle Room tweeted.
And a 2017 article reposted on his personal web site reveals Raskin saying, “We’ve acquired to get up each day and combat like hell for liberal democracy, not simply in Maryland, not simply in the US, however all around the world.”
The Trump Struggle Room additionally resurfaced a pair of 2017 tweets wherein Home supervisor Ted Lieu (R-Calif.) put a violent spin on former first woman Michelle Obama’s well-known credo, “Once they go low, we go excessive.”
“I like that. However I like higher, ‘once they go low, we combat again,’” Lieu mentioned in a single.
Home supervisor Joe Neguse (D-Colo.) was additionally revealed to have tweeted in 2018 that he was “really humbled to have the help of such a fearless chief as we combat to take again Congress” following his endorsement by then-Sen. Kamala Harris, who’s now vice chairman.
Throughout Trump’s second impeachment trial, the Home managers have repeatedly cited Trump’s use of “combat” and “combat like hell” whereas addressing his supporters shortly earlier than their Jan. 6 riot on the US Capitol.
“President Trump used the phrase ‘combat’ or ‘combating’ 20 instances, together with telling the gang they wanted to ‘combat like hell’ to save lots of our democracy,” US Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-Pa.) mentioned Wednesday afternoon.
Republican members of the Home Judiciary Committee additionally tweeted a screengrab of then-candidate Biden discussing how his father walked upstairs to interrupt the information that their household needed to transfer from Pennsylvania to Delaware so he might make a residing.
“That’s why I’ve spent my entire profession combating — and I’ll proceed to combat — like hell in order that nobody ever has to make that stroll once more,” Biden tweeted in Might.
In a snarky reference to the “incitement of revolt” cost pending towards Trump, @JudiciaryGOP added: “Incitement?”
Former Trump marketing campaign spokesman and adviser Jason Miller additionally joked on Twitter on Wednesday night that he’d say Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) “is combating like hell to determine what to do, however then I’d get impeached.”
Leahy is presiding over the impeachment trial as president professional tempore of the Senate as a result of Supreme Court docket Chief Justice John Roberts “doesn’t wish to do it,” Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has mentioned.
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