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Trump Impeachment: House Votes to Formalise Inquiry

posted by martyb on Friday November 01 2019, @02:18PM   Printer-friendly
from the Red-Queen-Race dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50246324

"The US House of Representatives has passed a resolution to formally proceed with the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump.

The measure details how the inquiry will move into a more public phase. It was not a vote on whether the president should be removed from office.

This was the first test of support in the Democratic-controlled House for the impeachment process.

The White House condemned the vote, which passed along party lines.

Only two Democrats - representing districts that Mr Trump won handily in 2016 - voted against the resolution, along with all Republicans, for a total count of 232 in favour and 196 against."

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 01 2019, @06:14PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 01 2019, @06:14PM (#914717)

    I wish I hadn't been so sardonic above. I think many people do not realize these things. After all the media is not exactly being forthcoming with these sort of facts. If my juvenile tone pushed somebody away, please do reconsider. And definitely check out Biden's interview especially as contrasted against the recent Ukraine phone call.

    It's tiresome reading everyday at sites such as the New York Times that 2+2=5. But you only realize that 2+2=5 if you actually have a decent understanding of the facts of a situation. And most people do not, since they rely exclusively on the media to inform them. And the media today has relatively little interest in providing an impartial overview of the facts. And so it makes it easy to become somewhat more radicalized in the opposite direction, which is obviously reflected in my tone in that post. But in rereading it, it's easy to see me as loony as the guys claiming the border detentions are just a step away from Auschwitz. I promise I'm not! ;-)

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 01 2019, @07:31PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 01 2019, @07:31PM (#914771)

    “Sardonic” is not a word that springs to mind from that wall of text.

    “Bloviating,” however...