November 10, 2018 By O. Kay Henderson Republican Congressman Steve King says he’s ready to mount a vigorous defense of the president in the U.S. House Judiciary Committee next year. King predicts “a good number” of Democrats will try to impeach the president once Democrats take the majority in the House in January. “I sit on the House Judiciary Committee, you know, up on the top bench. I will be third in seniority, I believe, so if they try to bring impeachment of President Trump through the Judiciary Committee, I’ll be sitting there doing battle with all of the vigor that I can to defend this president and help him be as effective as he can be,” King says. “I dread that. I don’t look forward to that, but it must be done.” Once he returns to Washington, King also plans to confront Ohio Congressman Steve Stivers, the head of the National Republican Congressional Committee. On October 30th, Stivers took to Twitter to say the country “must stand up against white supremacy and hate” and Stivers “strongly” condemned King. “When he criticized me, that lended validity to the charges made by all the Democrats…and I believe Steve Stivers was worth to my opponent at least $1.5 million for what he said and so there will be a reckoning for that kind of behavior and I would say of Steve Stivers, he has no path to leadership for the rest of his political life, but that’s not enough,” King says. “He… [Read full story]
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