GOP lawmaker: Democrats turned impeachment into a ‘big political fiasco’

Republican Congresswoman Claudia Tenney has told Sky News the Democrats turned what should have been a “serious constitutional issue” into a “big political fiasco”.

Representative Tenney was recently declared the winner of her Congressional race and sworn in as the Congresswoman for New York’s 22nd district after winning by only 109 votes.

It comes as, former President Donald Trump was acquitted in the impeachment trial on Saturday (local time) as the Senate could not come up with the required two-thirds majority to convict him.

Seven Republicans broke ranks to vote to convict the president taking the vote to 57-43, but the Democrats needed 17 GOP Senators to vote with them to achieve what would be a landmark victory.

Ms Tenney told Sky News in an exclusive interview she doesn’t understand why both Republicans and Democrats would “support this charade”.

“The president is gone, it (impeachment) is a removal statute, it’s a terrible precedent,” she said.

The impeachment trial process ended abruptly on Saturday (local time) after prosecuting Democrats decided against calling witnesses or delivering key evidence.

“They (Democrats) woke up this morning and realised they had not met the legal standard,” Ms Tenney said.

“They got up and realised they didn’t make their case that the president actually did incite the riots”.

House Impeachment Manager Jamie Raskin took to the Senate floor to prosecute his final case against the president before the vote took place.

Ms Tenney said the “very divisive inflammatory political language” used by Representative Raskin “underscores how political this whole process was”.

“It wasn’t a serious constitutional issue to them, which I think it really is,” she said.

“Instead they turned it into a big political fiasco, and I think that’s what we ended up getting.”

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