House testimony clearly shows that the president has committed impeachable offenses. The question is now what the Senate will do about it.
whether the claims about Ukraine’s intervention in the 2016 election were true.
with 46% both for and against impeachment. The split is along party lines, with 80% of Democrats, 41% of independents and 12% of Republicans supporting impeachment and removal. After watching the first day of hearings, Noonan was starting to feel differently. “There was something grave in it, and a kind of reckoning. This was due to the dignity and professionalism of the career diplomats who calmly and methodically told what they had seen and experienced. They were believable. It didn’t feel embarrassing to have faith in them.”
Noonan was surprised to see that “the Democrats were disciplined in their questioning and not bullying and theatrical…Quietly, smoothly, brick by brick, they gave their testimony and painted a picture that supports the charge that yes, Donald Trump muscled Ukraine.”. “Look, the case has been made,” she wrote. “Almost everything in the impeachment hearings this week fleshed out and backed up the charge that President Trump muscled Ukraine for political gain.
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