Pushing ahead with articles of impeachment at a hearing, the House Judiciary Committee convenes to receive the investigative findings against President Trump.
House Democrats plan to announce their impeachment articles against President Trump on Tuesday morning after a final, raucous House Judiciary Committee hearing Monday in which they accused him of jeopardizing the nation’s democracy in a reckless bid for political survival.
“You need to call balls and strikes the right way,” Rep. Doug Collins, the top Republican on the committee, told Nadler, accusing him of steamrolling opposition. When Nadler continued whacking the gavel, Collins mocked the chairman, saying “bang it harder.
At the center of the hearing were dueling presentations from Republican and Democratic lawyers, who detailed the parties’ divergent conclusions about Trump’s conduct.“We are here today because Donald J. Trump, the 45th president of the United States, abused the power of his office — the American presidency — for his personal political benefit,” Democratic staff attorney Daniel Goldman said.
“To impeach a president who 63 million people voted for over eight lines in a call transcript is baloney,” Castor said, adding that Trump did not act with “malicious intent.” In addition to abuse of power, Democrats are also likely to seek an article of impeachment for Trump’s refusal to honor congressional subpoenas and his instructions to aides to not cooperate with the inquiry. And although the lawyers didn’t discuss it during their presentations Monday, Democratsinto Russian interference in the 2016 election that concluded in the spring.
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