[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 49 (Tuesday, March 16, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H1408]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            PRESIDENT TRUMP

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. President Trump is owed yet another apology from fake 
news outlets. The recent revelation about the Washington Post and its 
retraction and other disinformation sources going with a made-up 
narrative from ``sources'' in the Georgia election scandal prove, once 
again, that no act is out of bounds for the media, Democrats, and 
others with Trump derangement syndrome in their effort to discredit 
President Trump. The Washington Post even went so far as to criticize 
all conservative media for not covering this story.
  Two distorted accounts of phone calls by President Trump got us two 
phony, baseless impeachment proceedings by this House. With no real 
review, witness testimony, or anything else resembling due process in 
the bum-rush to have round two of impeachment, the blatant political 
usage of this process is a stain on this institution and should be an 
embarrassment to all who drove it.
  Apologies are owed not only to President Trump, but, more 
importantly, to the citizens of the United States, who lived through a 
year of being clamped down, their jobs lost and damaged, savings used 
up, and a giant legacy of deficit and death that this institution 
should be tackling.
  Instead, many weeks and costs wasted on two impeachments in two years 
in the House. Shame on this institution for fulfilling this fake news.

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