Sen. Capito on Impeachment: ‘Process Has Not Been What Our Founders Wanted’

Sen. Capito on Impeachment: ‘Process Has Not Been What Our Founders Wanted’
Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), speaks during a roundtable discussion with the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the U.S. strategy for implementing the The Women, Peace, and Security Act," on Capitol Hill in Washington, on June 11, 2019. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
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Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) said the current Democrat-led impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump is not what the Founding Fathers of the United States had intended.

“I see it as the political blunt instrument that it has been through the entire process,” she told Fox News. “When the hearings were private, it was pretty obvious the Democrats were using this as a way to be destructive to President Trump himself. Then when it comes into the public arena over the past several weeks, I think it’s shown itself to again be a very divisive, very partisan exercise—and discouraging to the American public. And it will probably be coming over the Senate. I will be a juror, so I’m all ears, of course, to figure to that out once it comes onto my plate.”
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