Posted on 09/24/2019 1:31:11 PM PDT by Red Badger
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) will announce later Tuesday that she supports a formal impeachment inquiry into President Trump, a Democratic lawmaker close to her confirmed to The Hill.
The move comes amid mounting pressure from House Democrats to take a stand against Trump’s alleged political pressure on Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, during a July phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
That call has come under increasing scrutiny over the past several days following the revelation that a whistleblower raised concerns about the discussion between the two leaders.
Pelosi is expected to make her announcement at 5 p.m. on the House floor after meetings with Democratic chairmen of six committees investigating Trump and his administration and with the full Democratic Caucus.
"As soon as we have the facts, we’re ready,” Pelosi said Tuesday at The Atlantic Festival. “Now we have the facts, we’re ready … for later today.”
A source familiar with the Tuesday afternoon meetings said Pelosi will endorse a previous request by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) that the heads of other committees send the Judiciary panel any oversight information or documents that could help with the investigations.
More than two-thirds of House Democrats publicly support launching an impeachment inquiry. Pelosi has not been among those backing an inquiry.
On Tuesday alone, more than a dozen lawmakers — including close Pelosi ally Rep. Lois Frankel (D-Fla.) — have come out in support of an impeachment inquiry in the aftermath of reports about the phone call with Zelensky.
Earlier Tuesday, Trump acknowledged he had withheld about $400 million in U.S. military aid for Ukraine just days ahead of the July 25 phone call.
Trump said that he raised the issues of Biden, a Democratic presidential candidate, and corruption on the call but denied that he pressured Ukraine to investigate Biden or that there was a quid pro quo involved in the conversation.
On Tuesday afternoon, Trump said he has authorized the release of a transcript of the conversation with Zelensky and insisted it would prove he did nothing wrong.
"You will see it was a very friendly and totally appropriate call. No pressure and, unlike Joe Biden and his son, NO quid pro quo! This is nothing more than a continuation of the Greatest and most Destructive Witch Hunt of all time!" Trump tweeted.
Olivia Beavers contributed.
--Updated at 4:20 p.m.
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....we’re hunting wabbits....be vewy, vewy quiet.....
I can’t wait for this to backfire on these aholes.
So I guess Republicans don't get a vote.
And the crime is?
Doctored news stories!
Donald Trump is about to break the entire, stinking political system!!! Get ready for crazy time, ladies & gents!
Maxine Waters: Whatever we say it is!....................
Gigantic head fake by Dems/Media mob to distract from what’s coming from AG Barr.
If the subject of the phone call is true, that Biden improperly used US tax dollars to bribe/force a foreign govt not to criminally investigate his son for wrongdoing, then an impeachment inquiry is appropriate — for Biden and Obama. This is outrageous.
But then again, Trump shot himself in the foot but not preventing the massive voter fraud that put these idiots in congress in the first place.
JMHo
You can thank those Deep State RINOs and the Commies that they have been working with for that.
Not being Hillary Clinton.
The dims just can’t help themselves. They are delusional. This will be fun plus their idiot candidate won’t get any news for about 9 months. They are geniuses.
This makes me so angry. What is wrong with these people?
“alleged political pressure on Ukraine to investigate”
Alleged, political, pressure, to investigate. High crime, for sure!!!!!!!! 4 counts, of something or another.
To me, this says the Dims don’t have anyone who can beat Trump in 2020.
They are desperately trying to appease their nutcase base.
And they know that Trump is practically unbeatable in 2020.
This will blow up in their faces bigly.................
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