WASHINGTON – Today Congresswoman Elaine Luria (VA-02) called for the House to move forward with impeachment. She released the following statement this evening.
“In the military and in Congress, I swore an oath to protect our Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. In recent days, credible information has emerged that President Trump sought to pressure a foreign government — Ukraine — to produce damning information on a political opponent. Furthermore, reporting suggests he threatened to withhold critical security assistance to Ukraine, a partner that is under direct assault from Russia, in exchange for the performance of this investigation. He put the foreign policy and national security of the United States at risk while doing so,” Congresswoman Luria said. “This was clearly an attempt to leverage foreign involvement to bolster his reelection campaign and shows a total disregard for our democratic political process. It is clear to me that he has betrayed the public trust and abandoned his obligations to the Constitution by elevating his own interests over the national interest. Allegations of this gross misconduct meet the threshold of high crimes and misdemeanors set by the Constitution. Congress must investigate and use the full extent of its powers to check these alleged abuses of presidential power. The House must move forward with impeachment.”
Congresswoman Elaine Luria represents Virginia’s 2nd Congressional District. She serves on the House Armed Services Committee, where she is the Vice Chair of the Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee, and the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, where she serves as Chair of the Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs Subcommittee.
MJM says
Well, here we have it. The very sad news that our Representative Elaine Luria is more willing to tow the party line and lie about the President, than she is to face the truth about her party. The lust for power in the democratic party is stronger than their desire to serve the people of The United States.
If Nancy Pelosi cowers to the radicals in the party, and Adan Schiff stands in front of the country and makes up stories about what took place, then Elaine Luria jumps off the cliff like a lemming into the sea with them and for them.
They are all lying and we all know it. No proof has come out. Schiff has to twist the words to try to make it sound his way. Then it’s all such an emergency to get to the bottom of this, that Congress takes 2 weeks off ? No boss of a business would run the company that way, and this country should not be run this way either.
And the Mafia Don references ? All I hear there is that Pelosi and Schiff claim to have first hand knowledge of how a Mafia Don conducts his business. Now how could that be ?
Joseph Francis Corcoran says
Trump is The Liar-in-Chief . Absolutely despicable . I look forward to see him frogmarched out of the White House .
To Elaine Lauria : WELL DONE !
Ray Otton says
Lies, you want lies?
Here’s a beaut –
Let’s look at the whistleblower process and how an “urgent concern” is to be reported.
Up to May 2018 the instructions for Form 410 (Whistleblower Complaint) included the admonition that “First-Hand Information” was required for a report to be processed.
The current official form, updated in August 2019, has no such admonition. Which seems unusually convenient right now.
Someone in DNI revised the procedures to make it easier to process a complaint based on hearsay just as the whistleblower’s report was being vetted.
Convenient, eh?
INCREDIBLY, IT GETS WORSE:
On Sept 23, FOUR DAYS ago, and BEFORE the complaint was released, the Congressional Research Service (CRS) made an extensive update to their publication on “Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protections”.
The previous version of this publication was released in Dec 2018 and there has been NO legislative action to update the statute since then. So why the update?
Strange.
INCREDIBLY, BEFORE THE REPORT WAS RELEASED, CRS saw fit to provide significant additional insight into what an “urgent concern” was under the statute. The prior version used the term “urgent concern” twice. The current version uses it 10 times.
Very odd.
What else changed?
They added multiple pages on the “means for addressing disagreements that may arise between the ICIG and the DNI,” that were authorized in the FY2010 but for “some reason” those added pages weren’t relevant to include in the CRS analysis before the middle of this month.
So how did the “nonpartisan” CRS explain the statute to Congress who are blatantly ignoring the possibility that the CRS is misleading them on the underlying statute?
They did so by citing from 50 U.S.C. §3033 using footnotes for their analysis. However, the CRS leaves out of the footnotes a description of who the statute covers
Guess who is NOT covered in the statute?
The president.
Let that sink in.
Congressional authority does NOT include the right to receive this type of whistleblower report.
Period, full stop.
To sum up:
The timing and substance of the CRS documents facilitates a partisan narrative that the ICIG CAN forward a report to Congress about the President AND color it an “urgent concern” under the statute…………………………………..when that statute in fact says NO SUCH THING.
The only conclusion is that the CRS is intentionally misleading (errr, LYING) Congress and the public to facilitate this usurpation of authority.
Folks – this is an attempted coup which uses burocracy rather than guns.
All because they lost an election they were supposed to win.
Dougls Luther says
This is treason! Created by the democratic party!
Shawn says
She will lose her seat. Just because she was a women the majority of women voted this lady in office. Now, her positions and votes within a Jackass (donkey) party — directed by clowns, in a closed door secret KANGAROO court committee meetings should seal This Representative’s short “stint” in Washington DC. (Ask yourself …. is she representing us Virginian’s?). If you agree with the radical socialistic movement the Democratic Party represents then perhaps you should relocate to Like-minded congressional districts in other states. Virginia is “Don’t Tread On Me” territory, … proud to stand and fight for our constitutional rights.
If this dumb-bat lady in her statement believes President Trump poses a National security risk and so forth … (blah, blah… her words are not worth quoting) — then this lady in office actually is the one detrimental by promoting a socialist agenda, more government control and harnessing VIRGINIAN’S rights freedom. I’m ashamed of Virginia Beach for allowing her to represent this Military dominated population. As an ex Army infantryman , I’d be ashamed of her weak navy ways, that she thinks represents her constituents.
Sincerely,
Dr. D.
Virginia Beach.
Paul Plante says
Thanks for your service and welcome home!
Ray Otton says
When the WH released the transcript, all of the major allegations were debunked. There was no quid pro quo.
The Ukrainians were the ones who brought up the Biden tie-in. The “favor” that Trump was asking related to assistance in the Department of Justice’s investigation into the origins of the Russia collusion probe. That’s not illegal.
The freakin’ PM of the Ukraine said he felt no pressure.
The New York Times now reports that there couldn’t have been since the Ukrainians weren’t even aware that aid was being reviewed UNTIL A MONTH AFTER THE CALL.
Got that?
The Ukrainians weren’t made aware that the assistance was being delayed/reviewed until more than one month after the call. This sort of seems like a really big deal and if true, a quid pro quo was literally impossible.
You losers needed to get the impeachment nonsense going. It was a 2018 campaign promise of many incoming (D)’s and apparently, for all her hype of being a independent thinker because of her military background, Ms. Luria is just another hack.
Sadly for you, you’re listening to a very vocal tiny minority of your base that wants this and let’s face it, time is running out.
Sadly for you this impeachment push isn’t going anywhere in the GOP Senate. You need to flip 17 (R) senators for removal. You think, after the way you’ve excoriated (R’)s for the past three years that you’re going to get them?
Sadly for you, independent voters in swing districts think this is a naked political ploy and they want nothing to do with it by a lopsided 66/33 margin.
Sadly for you, the GOP base is on fire. Mr. Trump hauled in $15 million in small $ donations in three days after this story broke.
Sadly for you, next November you will have nothing to show for your two-year House majority other than political games while blasting a booming economy that you’re trying to destroy with far-left economic policies from your far left led by the infamous mixologist, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
The Trump/Warren or Trump/Biden debates are goona be LIT!
All you had to do was not be crazy.
So, thanks.
Michael Hamill says
As a 20 year veteran, I also took up that same oath,“to protect our Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic.” That mean to protect the rights of all the citizens in this country to include the President who was legally elected in accordance with our laws. You do this regardless of your personal feelings for the individual.
As I understand the facts, congresswoman Elaine Luria jumped the fence toward impeachment inquiry after hearing about a whistleblower report that was written by someone not even in the room. Furthermore, she did not even have the common sense to wait 24 hours till the report was made public before making such an important determination. Even after the report was shown to have all kinds of discrepancies; to include no threat of funds being held, congresswoman Elaine Luria has not reversed her opinion.
Basically, congresswoman Elaine Luria is in favor of an impeachment inquiry all due to a “rumor” about our President. This shows incredibly poor judgment and not worthy of the office she holds. Bottom line, it showed her to be just one more “political hack” that is part of the problem, not the solution. Like many of the citizens of this country who sit back, stay quiet and watch the idiocy in Washington, I will now step up and become more involved this next election. It will be my pleasure to help remove this congresswoman and replace her with someone who can represent all citizens of her district, not just the fringe.
Paul Plante says
And thanks for your service, as well, and welcome home.
Dave says
Too bad Partisan Luria doesn’t have the moral strength to stand up against the Democrat Inquisition of the President and demand a Special Prosecutor to look into the conduct of Joe Biden and his son Hunter who obviously used his position for monetary gain. I am sure many are so fed up with the obstructionist tactics of the radical left that we will work very hard to see them ousted from their seats in Congress. Your so called progressive policies will lead to your downfall.
Ray Otton says
Most Americans are clueless about political processes, the law and the Constitution. Most Americans believe that being impeached results in removal from office but that is just the beginning of the process.
The House passes articles of impeachment and the Senate holds the trial and then they vote.
Republicans will vote unanimously to not convict the President, even the one’s who don’t like him personally because they know that voting for removal will not assuage Democrats. They will be emboldened to go after ALL Republican politicians. So Republicans realize that “They must hang together or they will hang separately”.
However, hilariously, prior to that exercise in futility, there is a YUGE factor overlooked by Democrats.
During the trial the President’s attorneys will have the right to subpoena and question ANYONE THEY WANT about anything they want, including: DNC collusion with the Clinton campaign to fix the election in favor of Hillary, the creation of the Trump dossier, the cover up and destruction of emails that we suspect included incriminating information.
.
We will be hearing testimony from:
Barrack Obama
Bill Clinton
George Bush
Hillary Clinton
Joe Biden
Hunter Biden
James Comey
Peter Strzok
Lisa Page
Bruce Ohr
Glenn Simpson
Donna Brazile
Eric Holder
Loretta Lynch
Christopher Steele
John Brennan
James Clapper
Nancy Pelosi
Jerry Nadler
Adam Schiff
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Victor Shokin
Elijah Cummings
Robert Muller
George Soros
Chuck Schumer
Bernie Sanders
Kamala Harris
Cory Booker
Elizabeth Warren
The last five on the list are sitting senators who called for Trump’s impeachment before the charges were filed and therefore Republicans will justly rule that they are disqualified from the vote. Man, THAT will make some heads explode in the party that’s always going on about fairness.
Trump will BURN THE DEMOCRAT PARTY TO THE GROUND. He has a $50 million-dollar war chest already raised to pay his army of attorneys and all the time in the world to make this part of his next campaign. And you know he’ll do it as there’s nothing in his behavior so far that would make you think otherwise.
This alone should make Democrats shake in their boots. A lot of dirt will be dug up, truth will be unveiled, finger pointing will occur, deals will start being made and suddenly, a lot of Democrats will be running for the hills.
All this, because the President’s team of lawyers will have the RIGHT to question all of these people under oath. They will incriminate each other for lying to the FISA court, for spying and wiretapping the Trump campaign and for colluding with foreign political actors, like George Soros and the Ukrainians.
In the end the Senate will not convict the President.
After the Senate declines to convict the President, we will have an election, and Trump will win.
It will be a backlash against Democrat the three year temper tantrum, hypocrisy and dishonesty. Even minorities will vote for Trump, because, for the first time, they will see that Democrats have spent 2 years focused on maintaining their own power, not doing anything at all about black murders in our largest Democrat run cities, homelessness, opioids, immigration and other important issues that are quite literally killing people.
Then we will spend the following four years listening to politicians and pundits claim that the whole impeachment was rigged. At which declarations Americans will collectively roll their eyes back in their heads so far they will see their own brains.
So, move to impeachment now.
Hurry up, WE CAN’T WAIT!
Slide Easy says
News Flash for Liberals.
You are not going to Take our Guns.
You are not going to Kill our Babies.
and You are not going to Remove our President from office.
You Are going to awaken a Sleeping Giant if you continue down the past you have chosen. So please look over that log before you leap.
Dee Smith says
Wow, small mind! Wake up America!!
Slide Easy says
Fake News calls me a troll.
Hillary calls me a Deplorable.
Muslims call me an Infidel.
Democrats calls me a Racist.
Trump calls me an American.
Carla Jasper says
I hope that you are correct. This shameful behavior on the left is hard to believe. I think that I have been sleeping because I did not realize what was happening to our democracy. You go to the ballot box believing in this democracy and then our duly elected President is bombarded with lies and contempt each and every day! This truly is a sad and despicable time for our country.
Sara says
What a dumb broad..her being in the service should know better. Schiff admitted making up part of the story. Elaine wake up. Wrong is wrong. Schiff lied. The call was already told. Feel sorry for Cape Charles
Deborah Bender says
Looking for a landslide election!!!
Trump Train 2020!
Elaine might as well pack her suitcase! She has clearly moved to the dark side.
We are KEEPING OUR GUNS!
The dummycrats are nothing but a bunch of lazy, lying, cheating assholes!!!
Dee Smith says
Hahaha that’s the pot calling the kettle black!
Trump and his misfits will all be in prison where they belong!
Deborah A. Bender says
Oh right! LOL
Douglas says
The Democrats have destroyed their party!
On the issues that they want to convict The President. Are actually the crimes they have committed. The Democratics are not above the law! The wheels of Justice are spinning and about to roll over the Democratic party.
The Democrats are scared because the attempt to over throw the government has failed! And those involved are about to be known to the American people. The only thing they can do is make things up. Justice will prevail! Watch!
Kenny LaRicci says
I no longer view them, as my fellow Americans.
Publius Americanus says
Specifically, why? For what crimes? Please be as specific as posible when you lay out your evidence and tell me…..why.
No enmity, no anger just a serious query as to what it is you on the Left consider his actual, codified crimes?
Madam X says
Oh, my goodness, Deborah!
(oh, that’s right, “‘goodness has nothing to do with it.)
Deborah A. Bender says
Too bad you don’t have the courage Madam X to post using your name!
What a tiny little bug you are!
Splat!
A friend says
2020 Election
*President Trump will be reelected
*GOP will keep the House of representatives
*GOP will regain the Senate
*The “Swamp” will be investigated (see Ray Otton above for a partial list) and many will be convicted.
*Some on the list may leave the country to avoid prosecution: Obamas, Clintons, etc.
This will be one of the happiest election ever for TRUE patriotic Americans.
Conservatives base opinions on facts.
Liberals base opinions on emotion.
So, it takes thought to be a conservative, and only takes emotion to be a liberal.
Park a car with a liberal bumper sticker – no problem – conservative will only shake their heads.
Park a car with a conservative bumper sticker – it will be damaged by liberals.
Basically, this election is a contest between the forces of good and evil…
Blue Hoss says
Let The Games Begin…
MJM says
When I vote I am anonymous.
When I opine here I also remain anonymous. The reasons are obvious. Some think they are better than me and would want me to be the bug on their windshield. How sad for both of us that debate often can’t be.
In the meantime, if anyone wishes to face an important fact, Donald Trump is President of The United States. That makes him our Top Cop. It is his job to be sure our laws are upheld to the best of his ability.
The President of Ukraine ran on an anti corruption platform. So did President Trump, as we all know.
We have signed Treaties (International Laws) signed between U.S. and Ukraine that the 2 Presidents are supposed to discuss, interpret, and see to their enforcement.
Vice President Biden is on tape, and I have surely seen it. I’d say most have, bragging that he coerced and forced the firing of an official in Ukraine. BRAGGING THAT HE DID IT ! This official was investigating Hunter Biden and his business dealings in Ukraine. V.P. Joe said the man must go or he’d withhold our support $ to the Ukraine. There’s the quid pro quo the press is looking for and it’s not Pres. Trump on the screen.
The N.Y. Times called for a look into Hunter Biden a long time ago, as did several other news outlets. Somehow, Hunter, with zero qualifications, and a long history of drug use, lands the cake job of all $50K a month cake jobs. Is this legal ? The deal being sealed right after riding on A.Force 2 w/Daddy Joe to Ukraine ?
So, Top Cop Pres. Trump, BEFORE BIDEN ANNOUNCES HIS RUN FOR PRESIDENT, calls Pres. Ukraine and tells him it all smells and would he please do us a favor and look into it.
I repeat. BEFORE Biden announced.
How could the press and democrat party say Trump asked for an investigation into his opponent ?
So when is Trump supposed to make the call if he wants to attack corruption ? Only on Halloween between 7 and 8 a.m ? Is he supposed to see a tea leaf reader to see if Biden is going to run ?
Gheeeezus…..
Are we ever going to see factual reports and debating any more ? Or is it all partisan, emotional, lacking facts and truly misleading us all ? Our press is a partisan disgrace, and I’m not too happy with the tales the dems are telling.
Ray Otton says
Hey, things keep going the way they are right now, we could have a presidential debate between the guy investigating corruption and the guy he’s investigating.
And then, on election day roughly half the country will vote for the one fighting endemic government corruption and half for the one exemplifying it.
If I were a book editor I’d immediately reject a book with this premise as too far out even for the sci-fi section.
But here we are, all thanks to Democrat insanity.
So, a hearty Thank You to all of you.
Paul Plante says
What is most interesting here is that in the United States of America, it is now a high crime and misdemeanor warranting impeachment charges being filed for an American president to investigate corruption by a Democrat, which is exactly what the congress woman is saying in this following sentence, to wit: In recent days, credible information has emerged that President Trump sought to pressure a foreign government — Ukraine — to produce damning information on a political opponent.
What’s that stupid statement intended to imply, other than a Democrat candidate for president is above or outside the laws that govern the rest of us.
Congress woman Luria says “In the military and in Congress, I swore an oath to protect our Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic,” which is the same oath I and many others whose names are unsung took, and if she really means the oath to mean what it clearly states about domestic enemies, then she should be demanding a full accounting by Joe Biden, not Trump, who has a duty pursuant to Section 3 of Article II of that same Constitution congress woman Luria says she swore an oath to, to take care that the Laws be faithfully executed.
So why is congress woman Luria trying to interfere with that presidential duty, other than to protect a corrupt Democrat who wants to be our next president?