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.
They crave power and control over our lives and right now have neither, or at least no enough.
The Dems need about 60 more votes.
And no one in the Democrat media is asking what was Joe Biden’s son doing in the Ukraine that needed investigating?
+100 its boomerang time again.
This sounds very much the way Democrats/Leftists "reason" in their emotion-controlled brains.
I suspect their aim is not for a guilty verdict, but the simple majority vote in the Senate to bar Trump from running for office again. There are too many traitors still in the Senate, people like Romney.
There has been an impeachment inquiry since Trump won in 2016 how is this BS any different..bunch of whiny crybabies cant get over the fact that the American people dont support the commie left..do it Dems, destroy yourselves, gonna sit back and enjoy this
Or Fort Sumter....................
cannot wait
Well, they are going to do what they do. The question that remains yet to be answered is, what are we going to do.
Good luck with that.
Get out the vote.
Nor do they mention Joe Biden’s threat of $1B in ‘aid’ being used as a bludgeon to get a Ukraine prosecutor fired from investigating his son..............
DemonRats trying to take the attention off the real criminals.. Them! Especially, The Biden Crime Family!
There's a lot of that goin' around.
In their wet dreams they are antagonizing the military right now and we will put a giant can of whoop ass on them.
Somebody heard something is a high crime according to the Communist Party.
Formalizing CWII.
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