The attorney and former Republican, now a staunch critic of the Trump administration, dismissed Pat Cipollone's 'garbage' letter to the House.
to House Democrats outlining why the Trump administration would not cooperate with the impeachment inquiry.
"Because participating in this inquiry under the current unconstitutional posture would inflict lasting institutional harm on the Executive Branch and lasting damage to the separation of powers, you have left the President no choice. "This was trash," Conway told Bharara."I mean, basically the thrust of it is that there are some kind of constitutional obligations that the House has failed to meet that therefore render its impeachment inquiry illegitimate and unconstitutional, which is complete nonsense, because all the constitution says is that the House has the sole power over impeachment."It completely vests the power of impeachment in the House, and the House gets to decide how to go about doing that.
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