After a tumultuous month of complaints and allegations against President Donald Trump, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is finally addressing the question everyone is asking: Are we actually going to impeach our president?
In May, Michigan Rep. Justin Amash became the first Republican member of Congress to call for Trump’s impeachment, followed shortly after by another Republican, Missouri Rep. Tom Coleman. And, later that month, former Special Counsel to the Department of Justice, saying that “the Constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting president of wrongdoing.
From March 1 to July 17, 2019, a total of four different impeachment charges were made against Trump by different representatives, the latest coming again from Rep. Al Green, who was out-voted for the third time. But, House leadership decided to start impeachment proceedings in July 2019, eventually voting in September to approve a resolution that would define the rules of an impeachment investigation.
The first impeachment hearing against a U.S. president in 21 years started on September 17 with former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski in the hot seat. While questioned, Lewandowski admitted tocommitted by the Trump administration, including pressuring former Attorney General Jeff Sessions to scale back the Russia investigation.
This sparked the beginning of a month of allegations against Trump. Earlier this month, a potentially damning whistleblower complaint from within the intelligence community emerged. Though the details were at first concealed, the allegations: Trump pressed Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Hunter Biden, the son of former Vice President and presidential candidate Joe Biden, during a July 2019 phone call.
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