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Judiciary GOP Attack Plan Will Look Different Than Nunes’ Conspiracy-Heavy Approach


House Judiciary Republicans plan to take a different approach to impeachment proceedings this week, ditching the conspiracy-laced tactics followed by House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes (R-CA).

According to Politico Playbook, House Judiciary Committee ranking member Doug Collins (R-GA) will lead the Republicans counterpunch efforts by forcing Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) into a slew of procedural fights, harping on the legal definition of terms like “bribery.” Republicans reportedly believe that Nadler will be a bit easier to rattle than House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff (D-CA).

The minority members also plan to rely heavily on attack dogs like Reps. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and John Ratcliffe (R-TX), who are on the Intelligence and Judiciary Committees. Jordan was recruited last minute to join the Intelligence Committee because of his track record as a public defender of President Trump. Collins is expected to be the main press liaison, Playbook reported.

Republicans also plan to continue criticizing the process House Democrats have followed for the impeachment inquiry. While Republicans are allowed to bring in one witness for the Judiciary Committee hearings, they plan to complain about ignored requests to bring in fact witnesses before the Intelligence Committee. They’ll also try to discredit Schiff’s report on the Intelligence Committee’s findings, arguing an unfair process.
 

Schiff Says Still Investigating Whether Pressure Campaign Predated Zelensky

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) said shortly after the release of the report into President Donald Trump’s pressure campaign that his committee is still investigating whether the situation predated Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky.

“Did this scheme begin far earlier than we first understood?” Schiff asked. “Was the scheme, in fact, put in place to try to pressure the last President of the Ukraine Poroshenko and his corrupt Prosecutor General Lutsenko into conducting these same investigations, and was that plan put into turmoil and chaos when this new reformer Zelensky surged in the polling and ultimately won that presidency? That is something we continue to investigate and something these phone records also shed light on.”

Two months before Zelensky won his office, Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani had already communicated with Yuriy Lutsenko and reportedly planted the idea of “investigations” in Trump’s head, regurgitating fabrications about the Bidens’ corruption he got from Lutsenko.

By late February, Poroshenko, who was facing a tough reelection battle, had expressed openness to trading the bogus investigations for a U.S. state visit, according to the Wall Street Journal.

But Poroshenko lost. When Zelensky, a comedian who ran on a platform of reform, won in a landslide, Giuliani and his cronies scrambled to rebuild the deal with the President-elect and to make inroads with the new government officials.

That was the start of the Zelensky chapter of the pressure campaign, which includes the infamous July 25 call and leadership of the “three amigos”: Ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland, Energy Secretary Rick Perry and former Special Envoy for the Ukraine crisis Kurt Volker.

 
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