On October 8, White House Counsel Pat Cipollone sent an angry letter to four prominent Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives — Speaker Pelosi, House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff, House Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings and House Foreign Affairs Chairman Eliot L. Engel — declaring that he had no intention of cooperating in their impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump. And that declaration, according to conservative political scholar/author Greg Weiner, is in itself “compelling evidence” that Trump deserves impeachment.
In an October 15 article for The Bulwark, Weiner writes, “The most compelling evidence for impeachment is now in the public record. White House Counsel Pat Cipollone’s refusal to cooperate with the House’s impeachment inquiry is an attack not on its recipients — House Democrats who, through a process of legal alchemy, he accuses of violating phantom processes — but rather, on the relationship between Congress and the executive branch. President Donald Trump is now claiming for himself — and, crucially, future presidents — the authority to determine the legitimacy of legislative oversight.”
Despite its anti-Trump slant, The Bulwark is by no means liberal or progressive. The website was founded in December 2018 by two Never Trump conservatives: Charles Sykes and neocon Bill Kristol, formerly of the now defunct Weekly Standard.
View the complete October 15 article by Alex Henderson on the AlterNet website here.