| Pelosi Signals House Will Send Articles of Impeachment Against Trump to Senate as Soon as Next Week, Setting Up Historic Trial |
| Written by <a href="index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userProfile&user=52910"><span class="small">John Wagner, Colby Itkowitz and Mike DeBonis, The Washington Post</span></a> |
| Friday, 10 January 2020 13:53 |
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Excerpt: "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Friday that the House next week will consider a resolution to appoint impeachment managers and transmit articles of impeachment to the Senate, setting the stage for a historic trial of President Trump."
Pelosi Signals House Will Send Articles of Impeachment Against Trump to Senate as Soon as Next Week, Setting Up Historic Trial10 January 20
Her announcement, in a letter to Democratic colleagues, came shortly after the House ended its work week without taking a vote on the matter. As recently as Thursday, Pelosi continued to insist that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) should release a resolution laying out rules of a trial before the articles were transmitted. The crux of the Democrats’ case is the allegation that President Trump tried to leverage a White House meeting and military aid, sought by Ukraine to combat Russian military aggression, to pressure Ukrainian 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.) announced Friday that the House next week will consider a resolution to appoint impeachment managers and transmit articles of impeachment to the Senate, setting the stage for a historic trial of President Trump.