By Chris Lauzen
If American citizens and voters are going to be subjected by extreme, partisan Democrats to the water-torture and divisiveness of impeachment hearings based upon interpretations, so-called parodies, and outright lies, the least that our free and fair press can do is publish the actual transcript of the short conversation between Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky and U.S. president Donald Trump. That is what the Wall Street Journal did Thursday Sept. 26.
It will take a person less than eight minutes to read, then you decide for yourself if a General Election for the presidency of the United States should be nullified by what was said in those six-to-eight minutes which Nancy Pelosi, Bill Foster, Sean Casten, Lauren Underwood, Raja Krishnamoorthi, and others propose. Truly it is the do-nothing Impeachment Congress!
These are the same powerful elected officials who have concentrated their congressional majority and efforts for the past year on political posturing and obstructing the president, rather than attending to legislative solutions to health care coverage, comprehensive immigration reform, international trade agreements, border security, national infrastructure, and sustaining improvements in our economy and employment.
After you’ve read the transcript, please watch Democratic Party congressman Adam Schiff’s shameful description of what he pretends was actually said. What he concocted is a false and flimsy excuse to submerge our country into a sewer of destructive conduct and impeachment rhetoric.
We are only a short 13 months from the next presidential general election. Let the voters of America decide, rather than a group of frustrated, angry, and effete politicians.
I ask this publication to demonstrate its respect for the intelligence of its readers by merely publishing the Trump-Zelensky conversation transcript on one of their front pages, easy-to-find, and easy-to-read.
Editor’s note: A link to the transcript is available at thevoice.us/trump-zelensky-transcript.
Chris Lauzen, Kane County Board chairman, Aurora,
former Illinois State senator