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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 Monday November 04 2019, @07:17PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 04 2019, @07:17PM (#915847)

    Agree 100%.... EXCEPT.... The Soviet Union was very much known for trying to employ "honeytraps," that is, turn someone to their advantage by blackmailing them with illicit sexual materials that would (for example) cause humiliation such to resign or (more actively) cause a forced revocation of security clearance and/or firing.

    Rumors swirl about this today, and I don't give a damn about them.

    The point is, hell yes a President's sex life is fair game.... IF that can be used to destablize the public trust in a government when the games played become public. AND the deal about the Impeachment WAS NOT that Clinton necessarily just played around with Lewinsky (although that's fair game). The deal was Perjury to a Grand Jury - he lied under oath about saying no such relations took place by trying to slickly play with words.

    If that was grounds for impeachment.... then this sure as hell is. (And not saying you were commenting on that, either).