Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) introduced a resolution addressing the 2019 impeachment plot against President Trump. The resolution follows the release of new information on the matter by National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard.
The resolution expresses the “sense of the Senate by condemning the handling of the 2019 Ukraine Whistleblower Complaint, calling for the Department of Justice to initiate an investigation and prosecution of the matter, and declaring the impeachment of President Donald J. Trump by the House of Representatives lacks legitimacy.”
The filing explains that the whistleblower at the center of the new information “admitted to misleading investigators about prior contacts with Democratic staff of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives and requested that the complaint be hidden from Republican members of the committee.”
“The ODNI declassified report released by Director Gabbard confirmed what most Americans already knew: the President’s impeachment in 2019 was a total sham based on false and illegitimate statements and a complete abuse of government power,” Scott said. “That’s why I introduced my resolution calling for justice and accountability. If there is wrongdoing found in this investigation, I want these people prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. I absolutely condemn the people responsible for this partisan attack on the President and commend Director Gabbard for her transparency so the American people can see the truth.”
According to the new information, released by Gabbard’s office, former intelligence community Inspector General Michael Atkinson relied upon “upon politicized, manufactured narratives – only conducting interviews with four individuals: the Whistleblower, the Whistleblower’s friend who was a co-author of the January 2017 Russia Hoax Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) and close colleague of disgraced former FBI Agent Peter Strzok, and two character references who had zero firsthand knowledge of the July 2019 phone call.”
