I Refuse to Watch Un-American Impeachment Hearings: Lindsey Graham

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The U.S Senator Lindsey Graham said that he will not watch the start of the impeachment hearings of President Donald Trump because it terminates the basics of due process. Graham was talking with Fox News. The South Carolina Republican has close ties to Trump and he reiterated the main complaint of those who oppose the proceedings. He said that the president is being prevented from defending himself by not allowing him lawyers or witnesses at this stage of the inquiry. He informed The Sean Hannity Show that due process requires the ability of every American to call witnesses on their behalf, except for President Trump. He added, “This couldn’t happen in a parking ticket case. What’s happening in the House is basically un-American”.

Graham said it was not fair that the identity remains unknown of the whistleblower raising the alarm about claims Trump pressured the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy into investigating political rival Joe Biden and his son Hunter. He informed Hannity, “No American, including Donald Trump, should be alleged of misdeeds without confronting their complainant, which is the whistleblower, and no American should be denied the ability to tell their side of the story by calling witnesses to explain their defense. That’s being denied the President of the United States”.

He added, “So why am I not going to watch this tomorrow? Because I think it is a threat to the presidency. I don’t want to legitimize it, it’s un-American, and it denies the basics of due process”. He said that he needed his colleagues in the Senate to step up and say what is going on in the house is unfair, un-American, and we’re not going to bless it. I would like Republicans to say, this is a bunch of garbage. It is noteworthy that legal experts have dismissed claims that the inquiry violates due process because Adam Schiff heads the House Intelligence Committee and he is not legally obliged to allow Trump’s lawyers or witnesses at this stage. It is because the impeachment in the House is a political process and Trump would get due process rights if the trial goes to the U.S. Senate.