House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said that President Donald Trump ‘solicited a foreign nation, Ukraine, to publicly announce investigations into his opponent,’ as Democrats unveiled articles of impeachment
WASHINGTON - Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives announced formal impeachment charges against President Donald Trump on Tuesday, a historic move that set the stage for a divisive trial in the Republican-led Senate ahead of the 2020 elections.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler told reporters that Democrats had to take action because Trump had endangered the U.S. Constitution, undermined the integrity of the 2020 election and jeopardized national security. After the articles of impeachment were announced, Trump tweeted “WITCH HUNT!” Earlier, he attacked the impeachment effort, tweeting that to impeach a president when the country has such a strong economy “and most importantly, who has done NOTHING wrong, is sheer Political Madness!”Democratic President Bill Clinton was impeached in 1998 for lying about a sexual relationship he had with a White House intern, but he was acquitted in the Senate.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi leads Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler , House Financial Services Chairwoman Maxine Waters and House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff and other Democratic committee chairs through statuary hall to a news conference to announce artiicles of impeachment against U.S. President Donald Trump on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., December 10, 2019.
“Obstruction and stalemate have brought us to the 11th hour. I hope ... that both chambers will be able to set aside Democrats’ impeachment parade long enough to get the people’s business finally finished,” he said on the Senate floor. The impeachment battle has divided Americans and raised the heat in an already polarized Congress. Top Democrats initially had been reluctant to pursue Trump’s impeachment out of concerns doing so could hurt the party in 2020.“Future Congresses will inevitably make impeachment a political tool to be used anytime a President of the opposing party occupies the White House,” Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said in a statement.
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