Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., said Sunday that President Joe Biden missed two opportunities to unify the nation — on both COVID-19 relief and on the impeachment of former President Donald Trump.
In an interview on ABC News’ “This Week,” Wicker lamented that there was more bipartisan cooperation, for example, on financial relief during the pandemic last year under Trump.
“On five occasions in 2020, Republicans in the Senate, Democrats in the House came together with the administration and passed five COVID relief packages,” he said. “They were all done not only on a bipartisan basis, but with near unanimous support with the House and Senate.”
“Only this year after the president began his administration with a very hopeful speech about bipartisanship and unity, only this year have we somehow gotten to a point where this new president is saying, $1.9 billion, no ifs, ands or buts,” he lamented.
Wicker said he also called on Biden “to ask that impeachment not occur.”
“And I'll tell you if … Biden had asked Democrats in the House to forego this route, they would have done so, and I can't think of a more unifying act that he could have done.”
Wicker also suggested former President Bill Clinton’s lying about his affair provided a more “controlling principle” for impeachment.
“I’m not conceding that President Trump incited insurrection,” he said of the focus of the second impeachment of Trump.
“Perjury is a felony under the law of every state, and that is the controlling principle that brought me to a ‘yes’ vote on impeaching President Clinton,” he said. “A member of the judiciary had determined that he lied under oath, thus committing perjury.”
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