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Pelosi to Announce Trump Impeachment Inquiry
Speaker Nancy Pelosi late Tuesday said that she supports a formal impeachment inquiry into President Trump, according to a Democratic lawmaker. The purported reason is the allegation that Trump pressured Ukraine to investigate Hunter Biden. No actual evidence has been released of any wrongdoing in this matter. From The Hill:
Pelosi is expected to make her announcement at 5 p.m. on the House floor after meetings with Democratic chairmen of six committees investigating Trump and his administration and with the full Democratic Caucus.
“As soon as we have the facts, we’re ready,” Pelosi said Tuesday at The Atlantic Festival. “Now we have the facts, we’re ready … for later today.”
More than two-thirds of House Democrats publicly support launching an impeachment inquiry. Pelosi has not been among those backing an inquiry.
On Tuesday alone, more than a dozen lawmakers — including close Pelosi ally Rep. Lois Frankel (D-Fla.) — have come out in support of an impeachment inquiry in the aftermath of reports about the phone call with Zelensky.
Earlier Tuesday, Trump acknowledged he had withheld about $400 million in U.S. military aid for Ukraine just days ahead of the July 25 phone call.
Democrats have demanded the release of the call’s transcript, which Trump already cleared for distribution. “You will see it was a very friendly and totally appropriate call,” Trump said on Twitter Tuesday morning. “No pressure and, unlike Joe Biden and his son, NO quid pro quo! This is nothing more than a continuation of the Greatest and most Destructive Witch Hunt of all time!” .
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Not really sure what this has to do with anything. The vote count is the vote count no matter what Trump does.
Let’s hear the tapes. My only point is that it appears that Trump and Hunter Biden are at the opposite points.
Whatever else you say, this should be applauded.
From – I believe – Jefferson until the 1970’s, the President was able to do exactly that. But the shock of Watergate caused people – including some self-described libertarians – to abandon Constitutional government for “good” government and Congress passed a law saying he couldn’t sequester funds in that way. My position has always been that Congress can’t subtract from the Constitutional grant of Executive Power via statute, but the 70s were a weird time.
If the Democrats issue a subpoena and the Supreme Court says that it must be obeyed, then Trump will be impeached if he refuses to comply with the subpoena.
After the 1974 elections, the Democrats won 4 Senate seats to take a 71-39 lead in the Senate, and 49 seats in the House to take a 291-144 lead in the House. The GOP lost 4 governorships and the Democrats had a 36-13-1 lead with Governors, with one independent governor in Maine.
Am I recalling correctly that recent reports indicated that the Ukrainian government had information on the whole Biden matter it had been trying to furnish to the US Government but it had been ignored or refused by the DOJ or FBI powers that be?
Perhaps this all amounts to Trump essentially saying ‘hey, congrats on your win, and now that you’re there and I’m here, with AG Barr in the DOJ and the Mueller investigation over and done, go ahead and send it on over.”
IF Trump does something potentially impeachable in the future he should be impeached?
Ok but that has nothing to do with where we are right now or where the votes are right now
If the transcript is handwritten with a sharpie, I’m going to be skeptical. Just sayin…
I understand that the opposite is true. See comment #26.
It could be more of an insurance policy. Plan A is to open investigations that will keep generating news they hope will embarrass Trump during the election year. Plan B is if he wins re-election, but they manage somehow to retake the Senate, they can always impeach and convict Trump in 2021.
Hunter’s last name made him valuable, or Ukrainians are really big on hiring foreign meth heads at $50,000 a month.
The reason why this new allegation is so potent is that it can be explained in only one sentence:
“That’s what seven House Democrats who are military veterans did in an op-ed published in The Post on Tuesday, when they endorsed impeachment hearings: “The president of the United States may have used his position to pressure a foreign country into investigating a political opponent, and he sought to use U.S. taxpayer dollars as leverage to do it.'”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/09/24/why-ukraine-allegations-broke-democratic-dam-impeachment/
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Sorry, but relying on such a deeply anti-Trump source as The Bulwark isn’t the slam-dunk you suggest.
The core concept is that Biden was fighting against corruption by demanding that the prosecutor in charge of investigating his son be fired, and that it was a good, successful Obama administration effort to do so.
The one unanswered question is then “if they were going after corruption, then why was Hunter Biden and the company that hired him left alone after this event?”
…and then they try to blame Trump for Hunter Biden not being prosecuted!
If the fix was in by Trump, then why hasn’t Biden’s kid been brought up on charges by Ukrainian prosecutors?
Nope, your whole scenario makes zero sense.
If I accept your premise, would that lead to the conclusion that both Trump and Biden should be disqualified from election as president in 2020?
Still not seeing the problem. Did he ask them to make stuff up? Or to investigate a legitimate allegation against a politically connected individual?
The problem with the Steele Dossier is not that there was an investigation, it’s that the investigation was [redacted], and then the product of the [redacted] investigation was used as a pretext for domestic spying against an opponents political campaign itself.
Of note, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a resolution today 100-0 calling for the whistle-blower complaint related to Trump be released to the Senate and House Intelligence Committees.
You seem to have misunderstood the part where I pointed out that Trump didn’t do what you claimed, because Biden’s son wasn’t prosecuted. If you were correct, he would have been.
He wasn’t, so you’re wrong.
Now, would you please stop trying to invent “Reason Number 459 To Impeach Trump,” since the other 458 have failed so miserably?
If memory serves, I didn’t call for Trump’s impeachment, but said that we would need to wait to see what the Mueller Report would have to say.
The Senate just voted unanimously for Trump to release the whistle-blower’s referral to the House and Senate Intelligence Committees. If Trump doesn’t do so, and thereafter refuses to honor a subpoena, and thereafter refuses to follow Court orders, I would think that that would be an impeachable act. It is time for Trump to release the tape recording and allow the American people to come to their own conclusions as to if Trump committed an impeachable act.
It’s not even proceedings, there’s been no floor vote. It’s an announcement that they’re looking into possibly having a vote that will then begin an inquiry as to whether or not they should have an impeachment vote.
It’s the “Credibly accused” of the election cycle. Well, we can’t vote for Trump because they’re thinking about maybe having a vote to impeach him.
It’s passive aggressive nonsense right now, because they don’t know if it will work. If they were brave, they’d announce a vote on impeachment and take the hit, but they’re not. They’re scared to death of what the American people will do to them, so they’re trying to make it look like they’re doing something for the base and if it gets to be too much of an albatross they’re going to say, “just kidding we were just looking into it.”
Not at all. Also, you’re a Weld-supporter — do you support his call to have the President executed?
It is way premature to think about impeachment. First we need to see the whistle-blower’s referral that the Senate voted unanimously should be released to the House and Senate Intelligence Committees. Second, we need to hear the recordings of the phone calls. Then a judgment can be made. The delays only harm our country. It is time for Trump to act promptly. Otherwise he is
Delay only helps the Democrats. Nixon resigned in August 1974. In the 1974 elections, the Democrats won 4 Senate seats to take a 71-39 lead in the Senate, and 49 seats in the House to take a 291-144 lead in the House. The GOP lost 4 governorships and the Democrats had a 36-13-1 lead with Governors, with one independent governor in Maine.
And Republicans like Mitt Romney ought to likewise be scared to death of what the American people will do to them.
I am a ARBT supporter, “Any Republican But Trump.” My preferences are Sanders, Weld, and Walsh all over Trump. I hope that Romney or Haley jump in.
They know they’re gambling, so they’re already claiming the transcript is “doctored.” And they’re only moving to try to impeach Trump because the Kavanaugh circus blew up in their faces last week. Gee I wonder why nobody’s talking about Kavanaugh all of a sudden if it was so important? That didn’t work because a NYT staff member blabbed about what really happened. So now we have this.
They need to realize that Trump is playing 4-D chess and they’re the pawns. It kills me how they and some of you on this site try to portray him as some kind of childish buffoon because that’s how you want us to see him. But he knows exactly what he’s doing. This will be hilarious.
The Dems haven’t done the job they were elected to do. Instead of working on any of the issues before them, they’ve spent every minute in denial, feverishly meeting in the Secret Tree House dreaming up ways to negate the voice of the people and unseat a duly elected president. And to think THEY were going to make Trump pledge to “accept the election results.” Hahaha! They’re handing him 2020 on a silver platter, and now they’re handing us control of the House. Good job, Dems.You look like a bunch of five-year-olds.
And after you fail AGAIN, and Trump goes on doing what he does, this time he’ll be doing it “Against All Odds!” and “In the face of persecution from all sides!” You only succeed in making him look better every time. just hilarious.
Trump only got 14% of the votes in the Utah Republican Primary. McMullin got 21% of the Utah vote in 2016. Romney is in the perfect state to be able to take a stand against Trump.
So, you support Weld’s call to have the President executed?
For what?
Pelosi went out of her way to brag about her first hand knowledge of the pertinent laws (she was there!)…it will be interesting to see over the next 24-48 hours if she clearly understands the definition of “whistleblower.”
It should also be noted that it seems the whistle-blower statute (can a person claiming only second -hand knowledge even be a whistle-blower under the statute?) is being used to circumvent executive privilege. Normally there would have to be a showing of need in order to get at executive communications; here, it is asserted that we have to have the complaint to know what’s in it. This is – to put it mildly – exactly backwards. Just another example of people preferring “good” government to constitutional government. #republicansfortheruleoflaw
5 minutes after Trump was elected I heard Democrats talk about impeachment. Now they will do it. It really does not matter what for. Impeachment is a political process, no wrong doing required.
Paraphrasing the old Tip O’Neill maxim from the Reagan era:
“It’s not the nature of the evidence that matters, it’s the seriousness of the charge.”