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Cipollone Letter to Pelosi, Schiff, E. Engel, and Cummings re: White House Refusal to Cooperate with Inquiry Whistleblower Complaint on Ukraine (Kelly Smith, comp.) [1] (10/8/2019)

handle is hein.presidents/usgvtwht0080 and id is 1 raw text is: THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON October 8, 2019 The Honorable Nancy Pelosi The Honorable Adam B. Schiff Speaker Chairman House of Representatives House Permanent Select Committee on Washington, D.C. 20515 Intelligence Washington, D.C. 20515 The Honorable Eliot L. Engel Chairman The Honorable Elijah E. Cummings House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Washington, D.C. 20515 House Committee on Oversight and Reform Washington, D.C. 20515 Dear Madam Speaker and Messrs. Chairmen: I write on behalf of President Donald J. Trump in response to your numerous, legally unsupported demands made as part of what you have labeled- contrary to the Constitution of the United States and all past bipartisan precedent-as an impeachment inquiry. As you know, you have designed and implemented your inquiry in a mainer that violates fundamental fairness and constitutionally mandated due process. For example, you have denied the President the right to cross-examine witnesses, to call witnesses, to receive transcripts of testimony, to have access to evidence, to have counsel present, and many other basic rights guaranteed to all Americans. You have conducted your proceedings in secret. You have violated civil liberties and the separation of powers by threatening Executive Branch officials, claiming that you will seek to punish those who exercise fundamental constitutional rights and prerogatives. All of this violates the Constitution, the rule of law, and eveiypastprecedent. Never before in our history has the House of Representatives-under the control of either political party taken the American people down the dangerous path you seem determined to pursue. Put simply, you seek to overturn the results of the 2016 election and deprive the American people of the President they have freely chosen. Many Democrats now apparently view impeachment not only as a means to undo the democratic results of the last election, but as a strategy to influence the net election, which is barely more than a year away. As one member of Congress explained, he is concerned that if we don't impeach the President, he will get reelected.' Your highly partisan and unconstitutional effort threatens grave and lasting damage to our democratic institutions, to our system of free elections, and to the American people. I Interview with Rep. Al Green, MSNBC (May 5, 2019).

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