'They’re not serious': Ex-RNC chair slams GOP’s impeachment ploy as 'just bad all around'



This week, House Republicans have struggled to offer any substantial evidence behind their goal to impeach Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over US border policy, leading both GOP and Democratic lawmakers to cast doubt on the efforts.

Speaking to former Republican National Committee chairman and MSNBC's The Weekend co-host Michael Steele Tuesday, MSNBC's Deadline: White House guest host Alicia Menendez emphasized, "There is no basis here for an impeachment. This is pure politics through and through."

Steele replied, "This makes a show trial look like an embarrassment. That's just how poor they are in the substance. The poor approach to all of this, the fact that it is so heavily partisan and so political to the point that redundancy is not even a relief here. It's just bad all around. And the only thing here is the narrative of owning the libs — pushing something through that they can go back and say, 'Look what we've done' to a base that doesn't even know who the secretary is. They really don't. They don't know this guy. They don't know what he does. And the fact of the matter is, if Republicans really wanted to do something like this, then you wouldn't have the Speaker, in terms of getting the policy done on the border, you wouldn't have the Speaker saying it was dead on arrival. You'd say, 'Send the bill over so we can send back a compromise. Send the bill over so we can put on the table what we think we should do, and then we can take it to conference and have a debate. No. We don't even want to see what you want to do. It's DOA.'"

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He continued, "So they're not serious, people. Y'all need to wake up across the country and recognize what's going on here. It's not serious. There was no policy on the border during the four years with [former President Donald] Trump, except build the wall, and he didn't build a wall. All right? There was no policy on immigration. There was nothing to deal with this issue. Now you have senate Republicans and Democrats finally coming to the table — oh, and get this, peep this little bit of information — Giving Republicans everything they want, pretty much. This is a very conservative, strong border bill on immigration. And yet they don't want to dance with it because they don't want [President] Joe Biden to get the win, okay. Let's see what he does in November."

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