House Votes to Impeach DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Finally

Rebecca Downs / Townhall Tipsheet

 

On Tuesday night, the House narrowly voted to impeach Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Such a vote of 214-213, which took place thanks to House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) being back from his cancer treatment, happened one week after the House failed to do so. Mayorkas now becomes only the second cabinet member ever impeached, and the first since 1876.

Per CNN's Manu Raju, House Republicans had expressed confidence beforehand that they had the necessary votes to impeach. The vote, originally planned for 6:30, was delayed by close to an hour as the House first voted to pass a human trafficking prevention bill and then had to reconsider the motion to impeach Mayorkas. 

At one point, when the vote was tied at 213-213, Democrats could be heard shouting for order. More noise was heard when the vote came down at 214-213, as members applauded when Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) announced that the resolution to impeach Mayorkas was adopted. It also sounded as...Read more, see Xs and video here.

So, That's a New Disturbing Development in the Russian Collusion Saga

Matt Vespa / Townhall Tipsheet

 

Some might have speculated this was the case long before independent journalists covered it. Michael Shellenberger, Alex Gutentag, and Matt Taibbi dropped this latest development in the Russian collusion saga: the CIA plotted with the intelligence services of foreign allies to illegally monitor at least two dozen Trump associates before the FBI’s official counterintelligence probe in the summer of 2016

The established narrative was that the FBI brass took the Steele Dossier as gospel despite knowing it was a Clinton-funded opposition research project that led to the Crossfire Hurricane operation and related surveillance of Trump campaign officials. Disgraced counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok signed off on the probe, which Special Counsel Robert Mueller later took over. Shellenberger, Gutentag, and Taibbi added this latest development, which exposes a new layer of the Russian collusion hoax.

RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS...Podcast 

 

If you missed last nights RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS broadcast where Craig Andresen and Diane Sori discussed their Investigative Report: 'Drones, Retaliation, and A Globalist King'; the Senate vote on the $95 billion foreign aide bill; and the latest inflation report counters Biden's claim....you can listen to it (and past shows) at your convenience at: https://rspradio1.com ... go directly to Podcasts.