Rep. Elissa Slotkin, a former CIA officer and Pentagon official, cited national security concerns and Trump's flouting of the Constitution.
ROCHESTER, Mich. ― Rep. Elissa Slotkin , a key House Democrat from a Republican-leaning district, announced on Monday that she will be voting to impeach President Donald Trump.
If impeachment passes the House, as seems likely, then the fate of the Trump presidency will lie with the Senate, which will hold a trial and vote on whether to remove him from office. In September, as revelations of Trump’s dealings with Ukraine were just becoming public, Slotkin was one of seven newly elected House Democrats with national security or military experience who warned, in a jointly authored Washington Post column, that his conduct might be impeachable.
“I believe that the President illegally solicited the help of foreigners to influence the American political process,” Slotkin wrote Monday, citing both the president’s own statements and testimony from witnesses. “These first-person statements, on top of the raft of first- and second-hand accounts provided in sworn testimony, paint a clear picture of a president abusing the power of his office for personal political gain.
Trump, for his part, has lashed out at the impeachment inquiry in speeches and on Twitter. Republicans have mostly defended Trump, whether by denying he pressured Ukraine, claiming he was merely making a good-faith effort to stop corruption, or suggesting that the behavior is not impeachable. Two years later, Slotkin beat Bishop in one of the most closely watched and most narrowly decided races of the cycle.
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