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Trump Impeachment: House Votes to Formalise Inquiry

posted by martyb on Friday November 01 2019, @02:18PM   
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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• Re:It's sad Re:It's sad (Score: 0, Flamebait) by JoeMerchant on Friday November 01 2019, @05:19PM (3 children)

  by JoeMerchant (3937) on Friday November 01 2019, @05:19PM (#914682)

  I don't think he's actually done anything impeachable. Which, considering the amount of noxious shit he's pulled, is a sad state of affairs.

  Congress writes the laws, including Constitutional amendments. If a geriatric trust fund baby with a mail order bride from the #1 hostile foreign state ever gets elected president again, Congress should be giving themselves the tools to deal with that effectively.

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  Україна досі не є частиною Росії Слава Україні🌻 https://news.stanford.edu/2023/02/17/will-russia-ukraine-war-end

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• Re:It's sad Re:It's sad (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 01 2019, @05:29PM (2 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 01 2019, @05:29PM (#914689)

  "mail order bride from the #1 hostile foreign state"
  Slovenia? You fucking idiot.

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  • Re:It's sad Re:It's sad (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 01 2019, @07:12PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 01 2019, @07:12PM (#914758)

    Do you mean the "Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia"? Which for the first 21 years of Melaina's life was a part of the Eastern Block. Or do you mean Ivana from Czechoslovakia, which from the end of WWII was a part of the Eastern Block until 1989 (the first 28 years of her life before she married D. Trump? Is there a pattern here other than Marla Maples?

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    • Re:It's sad (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 01 2019, @09:44PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 01 2019, @09:44PM (#914823)

      Go ask Hillary whether Maples is a Russian asset too.

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