War Secretary Pete Hegseth made abundantly clear on Tuesday that he’s staying in the fight even though Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) introduced eight articles of impeachment on Monday accusing him of high crimes and misdemeanors.
The articles of impeachment from Massie accuse Hegseth of: waging war in contravention of the War Powers Resolution of 1973; “ignoring laws that minimize civilian casualties”; ordering extrajudicial killings; suppressing free speech; kidnapping former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro; and conducting an “unlawful war in Yemen.”
The proper remedy for such disagreements is ‘legislation. It’s debate. … It’s not handing the House and Senate floor to the Democrats so that they can run a show trial against the president and the secretary of war.’
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At a press conference Tuesday, Hegseth called the impeachment effort
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