Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States, for High Crimes and Misdemeanors

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Mr. JORDAN. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.

Nineteen minutes. Nineteen minutes. Four years ago on inauguration day, January 20, 2017, 19 minutes into President Trump's administration, at 12:19 p.m., The Washington Post's headline was ``Campaign to Impeach President Trump Has Begun.'' And now with just 1 week left, they are still trying.

In 7 days, there will be a peaceful transfer of power, just like there has been every other time in our country, but Democrats are going to impeach President Trump again. This doesn't unite the country. There is no way this helps the Nation deal with the tragic and terrible events of last week that we all condemn. Republicans have been consistent. We have condemned all the violence all the time. We condemned it last summer. We condemned it last week.

We should be focused on bringing the Nation together. Instead, Democrats are going to impeach the President for a second time, 1 week--1 week--before he leaves office. Why? Why?

Politics and the fact that they want to cancel the President--the President who cut taxes, the President who reduced regulations, the President who, prior to COVID, had the greatest economy, lowest unemployment in 50 years, the President who got us out of the Iran deal, put the Embassy in Jerusalem, brought hostages home from North Korea, put three great Justices on the Supreme Court, gave us a new NAFTA agreement, the Abraham Accords, the COVID vaccine, and who built the wall.

It is about politics. This is about getting the President of the United States. They spied on his campaign before he was elected. Nineteen minutes into his Presidency, they started the impeachment push: 3-year Mueller investigation, 19 lawyers, 40 agents, 500 witnesses, 2,500 subpoenas, $40 million to find nothing--impeachment round one, based on an anonymous whistleblower with no firsthand knowledge, who was biased against the President and who worked for Joe Biden. Now it is impeachment round two.

It has always been about getting the President, no matter what. It is an obsession, an obsession that has now broadened. It is not just about impeachment anymore. It is about canceling, as I have said, canceling the President and anyone that disagrees with them. The Ayatollah can tweet; the President can't.

Democrats can object on January 6, 2017, but Republicans aren't allowed to object on January 6, 2021. Democrats say antifa is a myth; Republicans condemn all violence all the time. The double standard has to stop.

Frankly, the attack on the First Amendment has to stop. Stop and think about it. Do you have a functioning First Amendment when the cancel culture only allows one side to talk? When you can't even have a debate in this country, this great country, the greatest country ever? It needs to stop because if it continues, if it continues, it won't just be Republicans who get canceled; it won't just be the President of the United States. The cancel culture will come for us all.

America is a great country, the greatest country ever. It seems to me that we need to think about how great the people of this Nation really are, think about what we have accomplished in the past, and begin to come together as leaders who represent so many great folks across our districts.

Think about this. Think about this: In 1903, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, two guys fly this thing they called a plane 100 feet. Barely got off the ground. Barely got off the ground. Amazing thing. Forty- four years later, Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier. In 44 years, we go from two guys flying a contraption they called a plane a few hundred feet to Chuck Yeager breaking the sound barrier, and 22 years after that--22 years after that--another American steps on the Moon. Think about it. In one lifetime, in 66 years, two guys flying 100 feet to putting a man on the Moon. That is what this country is capable of. That is what we can do.

We, as the Congress who represents the people who did that, should start leading, should start understanding what really is going on here. So I hope--I hope--we defeat this. I hope we can begin to come together and recognize the greatness of the American people and focus on the things they want us to focus on.

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Mr. JORDAN. Madam Speaker, I yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. McClintock).

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Mr. JORDAN. Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Biggs).

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Mr. JORDAN. Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Gohmert).

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Mr. JORDAN. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from California (Mr. Issa).

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Mr. JORDAN. Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Arizona (Mrs. Lesko).
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Mr. JORDAN. Madam Speaker, I continue to reserve the balance of my time.

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Mr. JORDAN. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Van Drew).

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Mr. JORDAN. Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Buck).

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Mr. JORDAN. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Gaetz).

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Mr. JORDAN. Madam Speaker, I yield the gentleman from Florida an additional 40 seconds.

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Mr. JORDAN. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from California (Mr. McCarthy).

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Mr. JORDAN. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Colorado (Mrs. Boebert).

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Mr. JORDAN. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Washington (Mr. Newhouse).

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Mr. JORDAN. Madam Speaker, could I ask how much time each side has remaining?
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Mr. JORDAN. Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Chabot).

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Mr. JORDAN. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Van Duyne).

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Mr. JORDAN. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Posey).

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Mr. JORDAN. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Gooden).

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Mr. JORDAN. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Jackson).

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Mr. JORDAN. Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Tiffany).

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Mr. JORDAN.

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Mr. JORDAN. Madam Speaker, the statement from the President: I urge that there must be no violence, no law breaking, no vandalism of any kind. This is not what I stand for, is not what America stands for. I call on all Americans to help ease tensions and calm down.

I just put out that statement by the President of the United States.

Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Cline).

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Mr. JORDAN. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Perry).

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Mr. JORDAN. Madam Speaker, could I inquire how much time each side has remaining?
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Mr. JORDAN. Madam Speaker, I continue to reserve the balance of my time.

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Mr. JORDAN. Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Steube).

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Mr. JORDAN. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Cawthorn).
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Mr. JORDAN. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Grothman).

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Mr. JORDAN. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Georgia (Mrs. Greene).

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Mr. JORDAN. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Clyde).
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Mr. JORDAN. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Utah (Mr. Moore).
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Mr. JORDAN. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Arrington).
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Mr. JORDAN. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Indiana (Mrs. Spartz).
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Mr. JORDAN. Madam Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Roy).
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Mr. JORDAN. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Fallon).
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Mr. JORDAN. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Good).

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Mr. JORDAN. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Norman).

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Mr. JORDAN. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Mast).
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Mr. JORDAN.
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Mr. JORDAN. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.

So Democrats can say, ``I just don't even know why there aren't uprisings all over the country,'' while there are uprisings happening around the country, but they impeach the President of the United States for saying, ``Peacefully and patriotically, make your voices heard.''

Democrats can say, ``You know, there needs to be unrest in the streets,'' while there is unrest in the streets, but they are going to impeach the President for saying, ``Peacefully and patriotically, make your voices heard.''

Let's be consistent, all of us. All of us need to be consistent and condemn the violence all the time.

Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from New Mexico (Ms. Herrell).

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Mr. JORDAN. Madam Speaker, may I inquire of the time remaining for each side?

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Mr. JORDAN. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from California (Mr. LaMalfa).

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Mr. JORDAN. Madam Speaker, I yield the gentleman from California an additional 30 seconds.

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Mr. JORDAN. Madam Speaker, I yield 90 seconds to the gentlewoman from Tennessee (Mrs. Harshbarger).

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Mr. JORDAN. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Moore).

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Mr. JORDAN.

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Mr. JORDAN. Madam Speaker, I yield 2\1/2\ minutes to the distinguished gentleman from New York (Mr. Zeldin).

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Mr. JORDAN. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from North Dakota (Mr. Armstrong).

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Mr. JORDAN. Madam Speaker, the Republican whip is prepared to close for us whenever that is appropriate.

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Mr. JORDAN. Madam Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Scalise), the Republican whip.

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Mr. JORDAN. Madam Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.

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