Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) criticized the House impeachment inquiry into President Trump as a “make it up as you go process,” ahead of a House vote to approve the probe’s procedures.
“This is a make it up as you go process and it’s been a long time coming,” Banks said in a Thursday interview with Hill.TV.
“You’ve had Democrats from day one of this Congress say that they want to impeach this president,” he said. “The Democrats have been in search of reasons to impeach the president while all-the-while moving the impeachment process forward.”
The lawmaker called the vote “largely a formality.” {mosads}
“If there were high crimes and misdemeanors that warrant the extraordinary process and procedure of impeaching a president, we should know what those high crimes and misdemeanors are, but at this point that’s still a mystery,” he said.
The House voted along party lines Thursday to approve impeachment procedures after weeks of closed-door witness depositions in the probe. Two Democrats voted with Republicans to oppose the measure.
Republicans have criticized the impeachment process, particularly the private nature of witness interviews.
Trump on Thursday blasted the inquiry as “The Greatest Witch Hunt In American History!” after the vote.
House Democrats launched the investigation following revelations that Trump pressed Ukraine’s president to look into Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on a July phone call. Some Democrats supported impeaching Trump before the revelations.
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