The Republican response to House Democrats’ impeachment case asserts that “evidence does not establish” that President Donald Trump used U.S. military aid for personal political ends, while arguing that the findings amount to a policy disagreement in which unelected bureaucrats seek a final say over an elected president.
“In our system of government, power resides with the American people, who delegate executive power to the president through an election once every four years,” says the minority report from Republican members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, a copy of which The Daily Signal reviewed Monday. The report adds:
Unelected officials and career bureaucrats assist in the execution of the laws. The unelected bureaucracy exists to serve the elected representatives of the American people. The Democrats’ impeachment narrative flips our system on its head in service of their political ambitions.
Democrats are expected to try to make the case that Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy constituted bribery, based largely on the public testimony of veteran foreign service officials, most of whom did not listen in on the call.
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