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House’s Prosecutors Supported Impeachment Well Before Trump’s Ukraine Call


Three of the House Democrats prosecuting President Donald Trump in the Senate’s impeachment trial—Jerry Nadler of New York, Zoe Lofgren of California, and Sylvia Garcia of Texas—are among lawmakers who voted last year to advance the president’s removal.

Eight days after that vote, Trump talked by phone with Ukrainian President Voldymyr Zelenskyy in the July 25 call in which the leaders discussed former Vice President Joe Biden and his son’s highly paid role on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma.

That conversation was the basis for House Democrats’ formal inquiry leading to Trump’s impeachment.

On July 17, however, Rep. Al Green, …read more

Source:: The Daily Signal

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