All three of the Democrats' witnesses before the House Judiciary Committee came across as "partisan if not hyperpartisan" and their impeachment testimony was good, not bad for President Donald Trump, Rep. John Ratcliffe, a member of the committee, said Thursday.
"The talk before this was three witnesses against one wouldn't be fair," the Texas Republican told Fox News' "Fox and Friends." "It turns out it wasn't fair ... they needed better witnesses."
Meanwhile, constitutional law expert Jonathan Turley, the witness Republicans called, said that the evidence against Trump means his impeachment would be based on thin, weak evidence, Ratcliffe noted.
"There's no bribery, no extortion, no obstruction of justice, no abuse power, so they shouldn't be doing this, but as a Republican, I have to tell you, it's good for us," Ratcliffe said. "It'll give me a chance to be one of the first people to congratulate President Trump on his reelection and maybe congratulate [Rep.] Kevin McCarthy on being the speaker of the House."
Ratcliffe also responded to a story in The Washington Post, which reported that U.S. Attorney John Durham, the special prosecutor investigating the origins of the Russia probe, could not back a Republican theory that the Russia case was a setup by the intelligence community.
"It's fun to watch the liberal media try and recast and respin things," said Ratcliffe. "I'm not backing off from my opinion because I've seen all of the underlying documents. The IG report is going to be an indictment of the Steele dossier and everyone that relied upon it ... I'm very confident that when Jim Comey said FISA abuse was a bunch of nonsense last December that it wasn't, and the inspector general's report is going to say that."
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