House Democrats are charging ahead with their impeachment inquiry into abuse-of-power allegations against President Trump, creating the very real possibility that impeachment articles could be drafted — and voted upon — before year’s end.
Behind Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Democrats have latched on to the recent revelation, brought to light by an anonymous whistleblower complaint, that Trump had threatened to withhold U.S. military aid to Ukraine unless the country’s leaders investigated corruption allegations against former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden.
The notion that Trump had pressed a foreign leader to investigate a chief political rival amid his high-stakes reelection campaign sparked an uproar within the Democratic Caucus, prompting new calls for impeachment across the party’s ideological spectrum and leading Pelosi last week to endorse a formal impeachment inquiry focused on the Ukraine episode.
View the complete October 3 article by Mike Lillis on The Hill website here.