Cornyn and Cruz stick with Trump, deriding Democratic ‘lynch mob’Houston Chronicle, Sep 25, 2019
WASHINGTON — Just hours after the White House released a summary of President Donald Trump's call with the president of Ukraine — in which Trump urged the Ukrainian leader to do him a "favor" — Texas Sen. John Cornyn stood on the floor of the Senate and tore into House Democrats for moving forward with an impeachment inquiry based in part on that call.
"They should be embarrassed by what they have done," said Cornyn, one of the top Republicans in the Senate." Cooler heads will prevail here in the United States Senate."
So far the Senate majority has stood by the president, as Cornyn — along with many of his GOP colleagues — lambasted House Democrats’ move toward impeachment. Cornyn dismissed it as simply “about re-litigating the 2016 election,†while fellow Texas Sen. Ted Cruz called it a "lynch mob."
It was one of two critical moments on Wednesday when the Texas senators again sided with Trump — the latest tests of loyalty to a president with whom they have stood by staunchly since he took office. Cornyn and Cruz also again defended Trump’s raiding of military funding to build the border wall, voting against a Senate resolution to end the president’s emergency declaration, which allows his administration to divert the money without congressional approval.
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