The early-afternoon statement from Staten Island Congressman Max Rose Sept. 24 began like his standard explanation for not supporting the impeachment of President Trump: “The American people are absolutely disgusted with our politics to the point it’s assumed that corrupt behavior is so widespread that it’s part of the process…It’s assumed that Republicans and Democrats will always put winning ahead of the country. And it’s now assumed that it doesn’t matter who’s in the White House, the opposing party will try to impeach them.”
That climate, he added, was “why I have opposed a partisan impeachment process that would only deepen those divisions, not solve them.”
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