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(CNSNews.com) - House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Thursday that “out of hundreds of hours of depositions,” not one person heard President Donald Trump say there were conditions on the aid to Ukraine.



“Out of hundreds of hours of depositions, there has not been one person who heard the president say there were conditions on the aid to Ukraine. To see the weakness in their argument time after time, to look no further than how they have shifted their own accusations against the president,” the minority leader said.







“Remember what this all started with. There was a quid pro quo. That went on for quite some time. Then we moved to extortion, and now we move to bribery. Why did we move to bribery? Because the DCCC finally came back with their focus group,” McCarthy said.



“But what was interesting when you listen to the hearings and you watched Congressman John Ratcliffe. He pointed out on Tuesday that in the 3,500 pages of deposition from witnesses, the word bribery only came up once and was not in reference to the president but in reference to the Bidens. Democrats might not be focused on facts, but Republicans will continue to double-down on the truth and expose those for what it is - a political hit job on the president,” he said.



McCarthy accused House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) of playing by his own rules and refusing to provide Trump fair process.



Again, we have not had a witness that we requested outside of those that Adam Schiff has gone through his audition. We do not have a process where the president’s own attorney can have a cross examination. We do not have due process, and again, despite all the advantage to Adam Schiff, he cannot come up with a reason to impeach the president.



“I know it’s been his goal. I know he’s taken this country through a nightmare for a number of years. I know he’s continued to go to care for this so much to impeach the president that he is willing to lie on national television.



Did we all forget just a few short weeks ago that Adam Schiff went on national TV repeatedly making the claim that the Intelligence Committee would hear from the whistleblower, that he would stand up to the president and the administration to make sure that whistleblower came forward. We learned later that Schiff and his staff had met with the whistleblower, but now Schiff decides the whistleblower should not come through.



He claims not to know who this person is, but when we watch the hearings, he will stop people from answering, because apparently he knows the name of the whistleblower, because he thinks they might say the name but somehow he does not know who the whistleblower is. I just think there’s more to get done.



Democrats promised they would be different. They promised they would govern, but we found out from the very first day of swearing in that their true goal here was to impeach the president. They kept that promise to themselves and broke the other promise to America.





