Washington – During the House Republican leadership press conference today, Wyoming Congresswoman and House GOP Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) called out Speaker Pelosi and the Democratic caucus for going down the path of impeachment with zero concern for evidence and facts.

REP. LIZ CHENEY:Thank you for being here this morning. We have just come from our Conference and really focused on the discussion about what the Speaker of the House and House Democrats did yesterday. We have watched now ever since President Trump was elected, the House Democrats have been careening from impeachment theory to impeachment theory. They’ve careened from target to target for a while. Ten days or so ago they were focused on impeaching Justice Kavanaugh. Now, they’re back on focusing on President Trump, but what we see repeatedly is a complete lack of focus on concern about evidence and facts.

What Speaker Pelosi did yesterday really was the worst we have seen yet, where she announced an impeachment inquiry without any evidence, without seeing the transcript of the phone call at issue, without seeing any details from the supposed whistleblower and when you think about what that does, both from the perspective of our constitutional obligation and from the perspective of our national security, it ought to give every American grave concern that they are dealing with this in a way that is absolutely such a flagrant disregard of their constitutional responsibility.

When Speaker Pelosi went out yesterday and announced that there would be an impeachment inquiry of the President of the United States, at that moment our President was up in New York at the General Assembly, and he was there having meetings, as presidents do during those sessions, bilateral meetings with other heads of state, there was absolutely no justification to launch this impeachment inquiry at all, no reason she had to do this yesterday, one can only guess that she did it because she was trying to intentionally weaken the President, trying to weaken his hand as he’s dealing with crucial issues of national security with our allies and some of our adversaries. It was an absolute disgrace.

We’re now in a situation where not only have they hurt national security, but they’re fundamentally abdicating their constitutional responsibility. Impeachment is a very solemn, grave responsibility we all have and for this Speaker to be going down this path, and for the Democratic caucus to be going down this path before they have seen any evidence at all is something that I think is absolutely unprecedented in our history.