Trump calls the impeachment proceedings a ‘hoax’ as he leaves for a NATO summit in London
WASHINGTON - Democratic lawmakers in Congress will take a big step this week in what appears now to be an inexorable march toward impeaching U.S. President Donald Trump, with the start of hearings seen as a precursor to formal charges being announced within weeks.
Democrats have been looking into the Republican president’s efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate political rival Joe Biden, a former Democratic vice president who is seeking his party’s nomination to face Trump in the 2020 presidential election, and his son Hunter Biden, who was a board member of a Ukrainian energy company.
The judiciary panel will hear public testimony from four legal scholars on what constitutional basis a U.S. president can be removed from office. White House counsel Pat Cipollone has not ruled out taking part in future proceedings if Democrats address a list of procedural complaints. But the impeachment inquiry has cast a shadow over Trump’s already tumultuous presidency and sharpened a divide among Americans that is likely to intensify as election campaigning heats up in the coming weeks.
“Impeachment is the people’s last line of self-defense against a president who insists upon acting like a king and trampling the rule of law,” said Representative Jamie Raskin, a Democrat on the Judiciary Committee.
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