Pete Buttigieg in Trump impeachment
On Principles & Values:
Won't demand prosecution of Trump; that's AG's call
It's not the president's job to prosecute a [former] president. Prosecution decisions shouldn't be made by politicians. Any attorney general
I appoint will faithfully apply the concept that no one is above the law, whether they're a former president or somebody who's never been anywhere near the halls of power. That's the whole point. It's that justice is blind.
Source: NBC News Meet the Press 2019 interview on impeaching Trump
Jun 16, 2019
On Principles & Values:
Rejecting foreign election interference isn't complicated
Q: Let me ask you about accepting foreign interference. If somebody offered your campaign dirt on, on either President Trump or a Democratic candidate, what would you do with that dirt?BUTTIGIEG: You wouldn't do anything with that dirt.
You would call the FBI. This isn't even complicated.
Q: Would you ever look at it?
BUTTIGIEG: The moment that you look at it, you have implicated yourself, and I don't think you would want to do that.
Some things are complicated in politics and ethics. This is not. And this is not theoretical either. A foreign, a hostile foreign power successfully attacked our democracy in the last election,
and there's no indication that they're going to back off from trying to do it in the next election.
Source: Meet the Press 2019 interview on impeaching Trump
Jun 16, 2019
On Principles & Values:
Impeachment is not just about Trump, but about presidency
It's a mistake on the part of Republicans who enabled a president whose actions are as offensive to their own supposed values as they are to the values that we all share. This is not just about holding the President accountable.
It's also about the presidency itself because a president, 10 years or 100 years from now, will look back at this moment and draw the conclusion, either that no one is above the law or that a president can get away with anything.
Source: October Democratic Primary debate on impeaching Trump
Oct 15, 2019
On Principles & Values:
Impeachment should be above politics, but Trump confessed
The constitutional process of impeachment should be beyond politics. And it is not a part of [my presidential] campaign. But the president's conduct is. The impeachable conduct that we have seen in the abuse of power that we're learning more about
in the investigations -- but just to be clear, the president's already confessed to it on television.Under normal circumstances, a president would leave office after something that was revealed recently that barely got any attention at all,
which was the president had to confess in writing, in court, to illegally diverting charitable contributions that were supposed to go to veterans.
We are absolutely going to confront this president for his wrongdoing, but we're also each running to be the president who will lead this country after the Trump presidency comes to an end one way or the other.
Source: November Democratic primary debate, on impeaching Trump
Nov 20, 2019
On Principles & Values:
Congress had no choice but to impeach Trump
This is beyond public opinion, beyond polls, beyond politics. The president left the House with no choice, and I think a lot of us are watching this process, watching Washington go through the motions and not expecting much, but a foregone conclusion
when it gets to the Senate. We cannot give in to that sense of helplessness because that's what they want. They want us to be taken in by that cynicism where we give up on the process altogether.
Source: December Democratic primary debate on impeaching Trump
Dec 19, 2019
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