Jerrold Nadler in ABC This Week interviews during 2019

On Government Reform: Impeachment: Trump continuing threat to election & democracy

[On whether Trump's actions are impeachable:] This is a continuing threat to the integrity of our elections now. This is not a one-off. Impeachment is not a punishment for past behavior. This president sought foreign interference in the 2016 election. He is openly seeking foreign interference in the 2020 election. And he poses a continuing threat to our national security and to the integrity of our elections, to our democratic system itself. We cannot permit that to continue.

There are two questions that are implicated in all this. One, is it OK to solicit foreign interference for your election campaign? Is it OK to use the power of the presidency to coerce a foreign government into helping you in the election, and to subvert the honesty of the election? And secondly, is it OK to order everyone not to testify in order to cover it up? Those are the two articles of impeachment. If the answer to either of those questions is it's OK, we will not have a democracy anymore.

Source: ABC This Week 2019 interview on impeaching Trump Dec 15, 2019

The above quotations are from ABC This Week interviews during 2019 (Martha Raddatz interviewing candidates for 2019-2020 races). Click here for other excerpts from ABC This Week interviews during 2019 (Martha Raddatz interviewing candidates for 2019-2020 races). Click here for other excerpts by Jerrold Nadler. Click here for a profile of Jerrold Nadler.
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