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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,135 posts)
Fri Oct 11, 2019, 07:22 PM Oct 2019

New revelations about Trump test Pelosi's narrow impeachment strategy

Recent revelations about President Trump’s conduct are testing the limits of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s narrow impeachment strategy, leading some Democrats to wonder whether the probe should be expanded beyond the Ukraine scandal.

Since House Democrats launched their impeachment inquiry just over two weeks ago, Pelosi (D-Calif.) and her top lieutenants have coalesced around a plan to focus on Trump’s pressure on the Ukrainian president to investigate former vice president Joe Biden, a 2020 presidential candidate, and his son Hunter. The episode, Democrats argue, is clear-cut, easy for Americans to understand and doesn’t require further proof as the White House has released a rough transcript of the call.

But a spate of allegations about other possible abuses have led some Democrats to rethink the strategy.

“We have a duty to investigate whether the misuse of government resources for personal and political ends goes beyond Ukraine,” Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), a member of the House Intelligence Committee, said in an interview Thursday. He later added: “We have an obligation to just see how deep this sewage flows.”

In the past 24 hours alone, The Washington Post reported that Trump sought to enlist then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in the fall of 2017 to work with Rudolph W. Giuliani to help stop the prosecution of a Turkish Iranian gold trader represented by the former New York mayor and current Trump lawyer, according to people with knowledge of the request.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/new-revelations-about-trump-test-pelosis-narrow-impeachment-strategy/ar-AAICZNp?li=BBnb7Kz

He's given you a whole plethora of things to impeach him for.

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New revelations about Trump test Pelosi's narrow impeachment strategy (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2019 OP
It's better to start narrow and then expand as necessary. NYC Liberal Oct 2019 #1
+1 dchill Oct 2019 #2
Perhaps impeach on the Ukraine stuff and keep investigating afterwards. n/t cynatnite Oct 2019 #3
Can a president be impeached multiple times Mme. Defarge Oct 2019 #4
I think the answer is yes if for different acts on his part. Stinky The Clown Oct 2019 #5
If it's to be done by Thanksgiving (the Articles of Impeachment vote) there may not be enough... brush Oct 2019 #6

NYC Liberal

(20,136 posts)
1. It's better to start narrow and then expand as necessary.
Fri Oct 11, 2019, 07:25 PM
Oct 2019

There’s already been articles about them expanding the inquiry.

brush

(53,815 posts)
6. If it's to be done by Thanksgiving (the Articles of Impeachment vote) there may not be enough...
Fri Oct 11, 2019, 08:59 PM
Oct 2019

time to widen it much further. And they already have all the obstruction charges in the second part of the Mueller report.

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