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Montana Rep. Rosendale Denounces Potential Impeachment Attempts

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President Donald Trump and then Republican Senate candidate Matt Rosendale on stage during a July 5, 2018 rally in Great Falls, MT.
Corin Cates-Carney

With less than two weeks left in the Trump Administration, Montana Republican Representative Matt Rosendale says that he won’t support cutting it short.

Rosendale says Jan. 20 will mark the transfer of power to President-elect Joe Biden.

In a statement Friday, Rosendale says he opposes impeachment, as some of his Democratic colleagues in the U.S. House are considering, and “other methods of denying President Trump his legal term in office.”

He called impeachment and removal attempts "media stunts drawn from left-wing fever dreams.” Rosendale was unavailable for further comment on Friday.

Rosendale condemned “political violence in all forms” Wednesday after a mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, as did Democratic members of the U.S. House who say Trump’s rhetoric provoked the attack.

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Kayla Desroches reports for Yellowstone Public Radio in Billings. She was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, and stayed in the city for college, where she hosted a radio show that featured serialized dramas like the Shadow and Suspense. In her pathway to full employment, she interned at WNYC in New York City and KTOO in Juneau, Alaska. She then spent a few years on the island of Kodiak, Alaska, where she transitioned from reporter to news director before moving to Montana.