| Pelosi Says House Will Proceed With Articles of Impeachment Against Trump |
| Written by <a href="index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userProfile&user=51745"><span class="small">John Wagner and Felicia Sonmez, The Washington Post</span></a> |
| Thursday, 05 December 2019 11:49 |
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Excerpt: "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that President Trump's wrongdoing strikes at the heart of the Constitution and asked House committee chairs to proceed with articles of impeachment, saying lawmakers have 'no choice but to act.'"
Pelosi Says House Will Proceed With Articles of Impeachment Against Trump05 December 19
Her address, in which she invoked principles espoused by the nation’s founders, came shortly after Trump went on Twitter to urge House Democrats to impeach him quickly, if they plan to do it, and suggested that he would call an expansive list of witnesses during a trial in the Republican-led Senate. At the heart of the Democrats’ case is the allegation that President Trump tried to leverage a White House meeting and military aid, sought by Ukraine in the face of Russian military aggression, to pressure President Volodymyr Zelensky to launch an investigation of former vice president Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden, as well as a probe of an unfounded theory that Kyiv conspired with Democrats to interfere in the 2016 presidential election.
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ouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that President Trump’s wrongdoing strikes at the heart of the Constitution and asked House committee chairs to proceed with articles of impeachment, saying lawmakers have “no choice but to act.”