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President* Donald Trump
The House of Representatives voted to impeach Donald Trump on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress on Wednesday. For most of the members of the House who were there, it will likely be the most important vote they ever cast. Impeachment is an extraordinary process by any standard. In the 230-year history of the Constitution, only...
Trump’s Scarlet Letter
When the time came for the House of Representatives to give Donald Trump his ignominious place in presidential history, lawmakers flooded into the well of the chamber. They had endured six hours of fiery debate. Votes in the House have long occurred electronically, but on this historic day, members of both parties wanted a keepsake: the written...
I-M-P-E-A-C-H-E-D! House Passes Two Articles Of Impeachment Against Trump
The U.S. House of Representatives voted Wednesday to approve two articles of impeachment against Donald J. Trump, making him just the third American president to be impeached. The floor vote was the culmination of a three-month impeachment inquiry into Trump’s and his allies’ efforts to force Ukraine into opening investigations into...
Trump impeached by the House for abuse of power, obstruction of Congress
President Donald J. Trump was impeached on Wednesday. For the third time in the nation’s history, the House of Representatives voted to impeach a sitting president, following a day-long debate on whether Trump violated his oath in pressuring Ukraine to damage a political opponent. Trump was impeached on two articles. The first vote,...
Donald Trump Made His Own Impeachment Inevitable
As rare as impeachments may be, today’s impeachment of Donald Trump, president of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors was pretty much inevitable.It was inevitable because of Trump himself, his very character, whose essential nature many who now support him have long understood. As Senator Ted Cruz put it in May 2016, Trump...
House Impeaches Trump on Abuse of Power, Obstruction of Congress
Brendan Smialowski/AFP/GettyThe House of Representatives voted on Wednesday evening to impeach President Donald Trump, making him the third president to be impeached by the full House in the country’s history.Lawmakers approved the first article of impeachment—alleging Trump abused his power by pressuring Ukraine to do him political...
Dem Rep Thanks Son for Convincing Her to Support Impeachment … Prior to Ukraine Call
Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D., Ill.) thanked her son Wednesday for convincing her in June to support impeachment—well before before President Donald Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky took place. “It is my adult son, Ian Schakowsky, whom I will always credit for my decision last June to support an impeachment...
Ukraine Lifts Prosecutorial Immunity For Members Of Parliament
Ukraine’s national legislature, the Verkhovna Rada, on December 18 passed a bill in its final reading that cancels prosecutorial immunity for lawmakers. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Trump holds campaign rally in Michigan as impeachment looms
WASHINGTON — An indignant and defiant President Donald Trump stared down Wednesday’s impeachment votes as he has every obstacle in his presidency: by broadcasting his grievances via tweet. The White House insisted Trump would be busy working rather than focused on the proceedings in the House, but the president spent much of his day...
How the Democrats Blew Trump’s Impeachment
Throughout the day Wednesday, the impeachment of President Trump was compared variously by Republicans to the Salem Witch Trials, Pearl Harbor, and the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. As of 4 p.m., 9/11 remained untouched. But the day is still young—the House will vote on its articles a little after 7 p.m., bringing an end to the first stage of a...
