[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 168 (Wednesday, October 23, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H8392]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             WORDS OF PRESIDENT ZELENSKY HAVE BEEN IGNORED

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Meuser) for 5 minutes.
  Mr. MEUSER. Mr. Speaker, an overlooked factor of these relentless 
investigations and this impeachment inquiry is the way in which the 
words of Ukrainian President Zelensky have been largely ignored.
  Zelensky said, without condition, that he felt no pressure from 
President Trump related to corruption investigations in Ukraine. 
President Zelensky's words have been largely ignored because they do 
not fit the narrative pushed by the Democratic leadership of this 
House.
  Just think, had President Zelensky wanted to severely damage our 
President, he could have lied and stated he did feel pressure. Doesn't 
that scenario give you chills? Had a foreign leader simply altered and 
fabricated one publicly stated phrase, the entire Democratic Caucus of 
this House would be calling for our President's head, repeating it over 
and over.
  That is the reality of this sickening and dangerous presumption of 
guilt that some Members of this body are choosing to push.
  Our President deserves nothing less than the due process and 
presumption of innocence afforded to all Americans by our Constitution. 
Anything less is an affront to the Republic our Founders created and to 
all the electorate, Democratic and Republican.

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