U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, defended President Donald Trump against the two articles of impeachment being debated in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday afternoon. Watch his remarks below:
Here is the transcript of his remarks:
I thank you Madame Speaker and I thank the Gentleman for yielding. I start off first that this is the largest and most massive cover-up of such a list of crimes against our country, and it goes so far as to bring impeachment hearings to try to cover all of this up. And I would take you back to October of 2015 when Barack Obama said, āHillary Clinton would never intend to jeopardize our national security.ā Again, the following April, the next month, Peter Strzok wrote the statement that was delivered by James Comey. And theyāve spent Democrat money and Hillary Clinton money in Russia to pick up dirt on Donald Trump! And, then, Joe Biden goes to Ukraine and makes a statement āHereās a billion dollars, but you must do what I tell you to do!ā Youāre accusing Donald Trump of doing that which Joe Biden has confessed to doing!
And, by the way, Joe Biden was not the opponent of Donald Trump. Heās in a 21-way primary for Democrats; heās running third in that race. His [Bidenās] opponents are the other 20 Democrats. How would anybody dig in to that mess of 21 people and decide heās going to go overseas and pull some maneuver like this? You have to assign him a motive. You assign him a motive, then you create the dots, then you go dot to dot. But the reality is that it was Biden that was doing the extortion of the power play in order to protect his own son, and it was Donald Trump that was following the law that said you have to ensure that there is not corruption here before this money is handed over.
And, by the way, there was a violent war going on in Ukraine and thatās when we sent blankets and MREās over there under Barack Obama. But when I hear this from the Gentleman from Georgia, Mr. Johnson, āhe doesnāt think he can win the election fair and square, so he would cheat.ā And, Iāve heard that here on this floor. No, itās the other way around. Your number one proponent of impeachment is Al Green of Texas, and he said those very same things and they brought this case November 9th, the day after Trump was elected.
I yield back.