House Dems talking more about impeaching Trump

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House Dems talking more about impeaching Trump
By Melanie Zanona - 12/12/18 06:00 AM EST


House Democrats are talking more about impeachment following a new round of allegations against President Trump, but they make clear that the time is not right — at least not yet.

While Democratic leaders say they want to wait for special counsel Robert Mueller’s final report, they will likely come under enormous pressure from the left to move forward with impeachment proceedings at some point in 2019.

Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), the likely incoming chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, called the allegations from New York prosecutors that Trump directed illegal campaign payments to silence two women an “impeachable offense.” The New York Democrat, however, questioned whether it was worth removing a president from office over just that.

Rep. David Cicilline (R.I.), who was recently elected to lead the Democratic policy and messaging arm, said, “Friday’s revelations I think give you a sense that we might ultimately head that way,” though he quickly added, “We just don’t know yet.”

And Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), the vocal vice-chairwoman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, said “the mountain [of evidence] is building” against Trump, but cautioned that Democrats need to wait for the report from Mueller before making any final decisions.

The new batch of court documents from Mueller and New York prosecutors underscore how the legal and political stakes have gotten even higher for the president as Democrats itching to investigate Trump are poised to take over the House next year.

“There’s no doubt that when you have a president ... associated with the violation of the law, that you have a new ballgame,” Jackson Lee told The Hill.

“But I think impeachment is a political process,” she added. “That means that the American people as well have to feel that the integrity of the White House has been damaged.”

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https://thehill.com/homenews/house/420913-house-dems-talking-more-about-impeaching-trump

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1. When 44 former senators write a letter to the current senate pleading with them to halt partisanship

for the sake of the nation, you know it is bad.

The problem will be all of these embedded Russian assets in our current government. Somehow we need to get past them. What motivation do Russian assets have in exposing the Russian assets in our government? None!

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2. K&R