Trump Responds to Impeachment Inquiry

Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the House is opening a formal impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump, saying he’s violated his oath of office and obligations under the Constitution.

“The actions taken to date by the president have seriously violated the constitution,” Pelosi said at a news conference Tuesday after a closed-door meeting with her party. “The House of Representatives is moving forward with an official impeachment inquiries.”

She said that six separate committees will be reporting to her on their findings related to Trump’s actions while in office.

Pelosi’s announcement is a dramatic escalation of the months-long confrontation between the House and the president. After previously tamping down calls from many Democrats to begin impeachment proceedings, Pelosi is now shifting to support the effort despite concerns within her party that the Republican-controlled Senate will continue shielding the president.

Her move comes as a stream of Democrats over the past two days lined up to call for action after revelations that Trump pushed Ukraine’s government to investigate Joe Biden, now the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020. Most significant were the calls from a group of first-term Democrats elected from Republican-leaning districts, where backing impeachment is politically risky.

There remains some confusion among Democrats about what precisely is changing, with several lawmakers pointing out that Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler has already described his panel’s inquiry as an impeachment investigation.

As Pelosi was speaking, Trump dismissed the move by Democrats as “witch hunt garbage.”

Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-24/pelosi-to-back-trump-impeachment-inquiry-washington-post-says
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