Congressman Dan Bishop Announces Vote on Impeachment Articles

Statement

Rep. Dan Bishop (NC-09) announced that he will vote NO today on both articles of impeachment against President Trump.

"The Democrats have thrown the country into turmoil over an innocuous phone call," said Rep. Bishop. "The articles of impeachment they now advance are a self-parody and a laughingstock. They reveal that the Democrats have no case and that they have lost their nerve," said Bishop.

"After clamoring about bribery and extortion in sham hearings, the Democrats allege no bribery, no extortion, not a single crime," the Congressman said. "They say instead that the President they despise must be impeached because he asked Ukrainian President Zelensky to "find out what happened' as to a Ukrainian role in originating the then-disproved lies that led to the now-established FBI FISA abuse against the Trump campaign and all that followed, and to "look into' whether Vice President Biden "had a prosecutor … shut down,'" said Bishop. "The Democrats allege that these requests constituted an abuse of power, but President Zelensky on the call understood them as "actually the issue of making sure to restore the honesty,'" Bishop said.

"I respectfully disagree with the Democrats that "restoring honesty' is an abuse of presidential power. It should be the object of presidential power." Bishop concluded. "Consequently, I look forward to joining every Democrat who agrees and every Republican in voting against this partisan and corrupt abuse of the process of impeachment."

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