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December 11, 2019
Trump Charged with Abuse and Obstruction
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Democratic leaders say Trump
put his political interests above
those of the nation when he asked
Ukraine to investigate his rivals,
including Democrat Joe Biden,
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an aggressive Russia. They say he that when he asked Ukraine’s
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not me!” Democrats, however, say
Trump’s meaning could not have
been clearer in seeking political
dirt on Biden, his possible oppo-
nent in the 2020 election.
In drafting the articles of im-
peachment, Pelosi faced a legal
and political challenge of bal-
ancing the views of her majority
while hitting the Constitution’s
bar of “treason, bribery or other
high crimes and misdemeanors.”
Some liberal lawmakers want-
ed more expansive charges en-
compassing the findings from
former special counsel Robert
Mueller’s probe of Russian inter-
ference in the 2016 election. Cen-
trist Democrats preferred to keep
the impeachment articles more fo-
cused on Trump’s actions toward
Ukraine.
When asked during a Monday
evening event if she had enough
votes to impeach the Republican
president, Pelosi said she would
let House lawmakers vote their
conscience.
“On an issue like this, we don’t
count the votes. People will just
make their voices known on it,”
Pelosi said at The Wall Street
Journal CEO Council. “I haven’t
counted votes, nor will I.”
The next steps are expected
to come swiftly after months of
investigation into the Ukraine
matter, which followed Mueller’s
two-year Russia probe.