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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, @07:49PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 04 2019, @07:49PM (#915866)

    You know, you're right.

    So, we should still do what was done in the past: The Department of Justice should appoint a Special Investigator in the Ukraine matter who has the full credence and might of the Executive department and reports to the Legislature with all due haste and extreme care for determination of the law and the truth whether or not the President has now engaged in any activities whatsoever which benefit him personally at the expense of the Nation's security for political purposes and that person would be allowed by the Attorney General of these United States to fully determine whether or not offenses were in fact committed that the House might then vote for impeachment on and I'm sure that it will all be at arm's length and that there would be no attempts by President Trump or AG Barr to sway this investigation or obstruct it or allow our Law Enforcement to fully..............

    OK, can't do it anymore. Laughing too hard.

    Put all the "Oh it should be sunshine and light" spin on it you want. The President is corrupt and the way he operates there is no way that the Executive can be trusted with the investigation aspect of the case. Mueller proved that.

    And, by the way, you're about to get all the openness, light, and publicity you want. Fuck any notion of "too late." It will prove JUST how dirty this President is, and hopefully in a way that the entire Republican establishment will be shown to be corrupt in a way that they NEVER retain power again and and that party will dissolve to others who understand the difference between working for politics and working for the nation's interest when it comes to foreign relations. Because Trump and his ENTIRE asshole staff of sycophantic yes people from the AG to SecState to his ass licking Chief of Staff does NOT know how to do this.

    Now let me tell you what I really think about your comment......

    But seriously, that half of the country is taken in by this purest grade bullshit is the worst fear I have at showing America may well be entering the twilight of an empiric fall. Or that the Presidency is finished and must become an Emperor or King in order to hold the country together. Hope not. But Trump is sure as shit acting that way, ain't he?????