One of President Trump's advisors sees a silver lining in last week's House committee votes sending two articles of impeachment to the full House, where a vote is expected later this week.
Yesterday, Representative Adam Schiff (D-California) told Fox News Sunday that "abuse of power" – one of the articles of impeachment leveled by Democrats against President Donald Trump – "connotes the full range of the president's conduct [and] the pattern of his conduct" to invite Russian interference into America's election process. He also argued that Trump's refusal to cooperate with Congress during the impeachment inquiry – i.e., "obstruction of Congress" (the second article) – constitutes an impeachable offense.
The votes last week by the Democrat-dominated House Judiciary Committee, each with an identical party-line result, may have been the least climactic in committee history:
Clerk: "Mr. Chairman, there are 23 ayes and 17 noes."
Jerrold Nadler (committee chairman): "The article is agreed to. The resolution is amended as ordered and reported favorably to the House. Without objection, the committee is adjourned."
Nadler's gavel after the second vote brought the hearing to an end – and according to Trump supporters like evangelical advisor Dr. Robert Jeffress, it also brought an end to any hope the Democrats had in the upcoming presidential election.
Jeffress"We know how this movie is going to end: President Trump will be impeached by the House; he will be acquitted by the Senate; and I believe he will be reelected by the people in 2020," Jeffress tells OneNewsNow.
The Southern Baptist pastor maintains that Trump supporters are angered by the Democrats' attempted coup and will come out in droves next November.
"I believe his base is galvanized; it's energized. It sees what this impeachment proceeding is really all about – not just a farce or a hoax, [but] it is a sign of the Democrats' desperation," he offers.
And Jeffress argues that Democrats know they will likely lose in the 2020 presidential election. In fact, in his opening statement last week Nadler said "the integrity of our next election is at stake" – and that Trump would "will almost certainly try again to solicit interference in the election for his personal political gain."
"I think they know they're not going to win," says Jeffress. "I think they're already setting the stage for declaring this an illegitimate election."