Rand Paul blasts Democrats for setting ‘terrible precedent’ with Trump impeachment
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Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) attacked Democrats for impeaching former President Donald Trump twice amid the latest developments with Hunter Biden and the GOP’s potential impeachment push for President Joe Biden.
Paul, a member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, said the Democrats “rushed to impeach” Trump, and he urged Republicans to “do better” through a continued investigation into the Biden family.
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“I think the Democrats set a terrible precedent in impeaching Donald Trump just because they didn’t like him basically,” Paul Paul said on Fox News on Thursday morning. “And both of their impeachments fell flat and made them look, I think, terrible.”
Trump is the only president in the country’s history that has been impeached twice. Trump was impeached in 2019 and again in 2021 after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol when his supporters attempted to overturn Joe Biden’s election victory.
“But I think it’s not good for the Republic to keep impeaching presidents and indicting presidents,” Paul added. “All this stuff is destructive.”
A plea agreement between federal prosecutors and Hunter Biden fell apart on Wednesday, a month after the president’s son was thought to have accepted an agreement with the Department of Justice to plead guilty to two misdemeanor offenses related to his filing of federal income taxes.
Now, conservatives are circulating talks of impeaching the president, with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) suggesting a future impeachment inquiry as GOP members gather evidence to potentially start the investigation.
Paul said that while there are signs of corruption, the House should continue its investigation and find more evidence, adding that an immediate call for impeachment is not always the solution.
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“There’s two stages. There has to be enough evidence … then there has to be enough evidence to convict,” Paul said. “And so I think that these are high bars, and they were meant to be so because in a political divide with a country evenly divided — we’re all at each other’s throats.”
“It can’t always be about impeaching the president we don’t like from the other party,” Paul said.