Breaking: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi formally announces that the House is moving forward with an impeachment inquiry into President Trump.
, a possible Trump opponent in the 2020 presidential race.
On Tuesday afternoon, Trump announced he had ordered the release on Wednesday of the “complete fully declassified and unredacted transcript” of the crucial July phone conversation. Democrats want to know whether the president withheld Ukrainian aid that Congress had approved in order to pressure Zelensky to meddle in the 2020 U.S. election. The aid was released earlier this month, days after Congress learned of the whistleblower complaint.
Since then, at least a dozen other Democrats who had been hold-outs against impeachment — including Reps. Lizzie Fletcher of Texas, Antonio Delgado of New York — reversed course and came out with their support for an inquiry. Together, they represent some of the most Trump-leaning districts in the country, suggesting they do not believe there will be a political price to pay for beginning an impeachment inquiry.
“The time to begin impeachment proceedings against this president has come,” said Rep. John Lewis , the civil rights leader whose opinion weighs heavily with Democrats and who is often aligned with Pelosi.
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