Rep. Doug Collins on Wednesday said it was no “surprise” that members of the House are debating articles of impeachment against President Trump because Democrats have been pursuing that action since they won the majority in the 2018 election.
“This has not been a surprise and it’s not even something that we would not have thought about. From the very moment that the majority party in this House won, the inevitability that we would be here today was only a matter of what date they would schedule it,” Collins, the ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, said during his opening remarks before the full House.
Collins warned of the Founding Fathers’ concern about one political party pushing through a partisan impeachment “in which politics or the majority who have their strength can do what they want to do irregardless of any facts,” the Georgia Republican said.
He also said Democrats would be judged on the hasty impeachment process against Trump that was rushed through the House.
Doug CollinsPOOL/AFP via Getty Images“The clock and the calendar are terrible masters. They do not care about anything except getting the time done and the calendar fixed,” he said. “They do not care about facts. They do not care about time. And one day the clock and the calendar will hang along this body in a very detrimental way.”
Collins said Trump’s conduct should be up to voters to decide.
“We on the Republican side have no problem taking our case to the majority and to the people of this country, because they elected Donald Trump and it is a matter for the voters – not this house, not in this way and not in the way this is being done,” he said during the debate on two articles of impeachment against Trump.
The House is weighing charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress over Trump’s withholding military aid to Ukraine to force an investigation into Joe Biden, a 2020 political rival.
