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He explained that the "inquiry is consistent with the Constitution and House rules."
The judge also wrote an op-ed published by Fox News.
Fox News senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano debunked Republican talking points regarding the fast-moving impeachment inquiry engulfing President Donald Trump's administration, explaining that the process has been "consistent with the Constitution and House rules."
Trump and some Republican lawmakers have repeatedly called the impeachment inquiry unfair. "Republicans are totally deprived of their rights in this Impeachment Witch Hunt. No lawyers, no questions, no transparency!" the president tweeted on Wednesday.
But Napolitano emphasized that these complaints are unfounded. "Republicans are complaining: Why are these interrogations taking place in secret and why isn't a transcript being revealed?" the former judge said during a segment of the Fox News morning show Fox & Friends on Thursday.
"We have a mindset that this is a trial, and a trial is public, and the defendant is there, and the defendant has his or her lawyers and they are challenging what the government is doing. This is not a trial," asserted Napolitano, who previously served as a New Jersey Superior Court judge. "This is the prosecutors interviewing their witnesses, and that procedure never takes place in public because you want privacy and you want candor."
The judge also wrote an op-ed published by Fox News.
Concluding his op-ed, Napolitano reiterated the allegations against Trump.
"The president refused to deliver congressionally authorized and ordered military and financial aid to an ally threatened with Russian invasion until the ally's government performed a presidentially requested favor for his re-election campaign—a favor that is unlawful to ask for," he wrote. "Is it an impeachable offense?"
"Under the Constitution, it is if the House says it is," the judicial expert wrote.