Speaker Nancy Pelosi's support of a Trump impeachment inquiry puts the House on a trajectory to potentially vote to remove the president from office later this fall
Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday formally threw her support behind an impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump, a dramatic move that puts the House on a trajectory to vote to remove the president from office later this fall.
But Democratic outrage over Trump's alleged threat to cut off U.S. military aid to Ukraine unless officials there launched an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden and his son persuaded House Democrats from across the party’s ideological spectrum to back an inquiry. Dozens of centrist and moderate Democrats have come out in support of impeachment during the past 72 hours, persuading Pelosi and other top party leaders to back the effort.
“The president of the United States admitted that he spoke to the president of a foreign country — that would be Ukraine — about something that would assist him in his election, Pelosi told reporters later. "So that has changed everything.” Pelosi shifted from her monthslong effort to contain the push for impeachment in the face of the startling new charges of abuse of power by Trump. Pelosi, however, did not back creation of a select committee of lawmakers to centralize the impeachment probe and pluck it from the jurisdiction of the House Judiciary Committee — a demand made by some moderate Democrats.
The speed at which the Ukraine scandal has unfolded has stunned lawmakers on both sides of the Capitol. Yet it was clear by Monday — when a large bloc of "frontline" Democratic freshmen from swing districts came out in support of an impeachment inquiry — that the momentum was building for the effort.
Trump has acknowledged that on a July 25 call with Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, he encouraged the recently elected leader to probe the former vice president's involvement in the ouster of a Ukrainian prosecutor who was seen by the international community as corrupt. But Trump allies have claimed with no evidence that Biden might have acted to protect Hunter Biden.
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