"We've seen it before; the American people are not going to have it"

 

“The former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows (R-North Carolina) said Democrats were chasing a ‘viral moment’ and ‘political vengeance’ by going ahead with former President Donald Trump's second impeachment trial this week.

 

“Meadows told Fox News on Sunday [February 7] that Democrats were using the impeachment process to score ‘political points’ against Republicans, and argued that the whole impeachment process was unconstitutional’…

 

“[He] added that the trial centered on the Capitol riots of January 6 would be a piece of ‘political theater’… ‘There's a whole lot of blame going around, but yet not a whole lot of accountability. That accountability needs to rest with where it ultimately should be, and that's on Capitol Hill’…

 

“‘This whole impeachment is designed to remove someone from office, President Trump is a private citizen, at this point, and yet they have to continue to go ahead and try to put forth some kind of narrative that scores political points,’ Meadows said. ‘But we've seen it before; the American people are not going to have it’” (Newsweek).