'There's a lot of talk about Biden's son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great,' Trump said to Zelensky, in what is set to be analyzed by talking heads and pundits for years to come.
And things ramped up this morning as the transcript of the president's call with Volodymyr Zelensky was"There's a lot of talk about Biden's son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great," Trump said to Zelensky, in what is set to be analyzed by talking heads and pundits for years to come.
When the constitution was ratified, Alexander Hamilton wrote in the Federalist Papers that impeachment was applicable to"those offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust. They are of a nature which may with peculiar propriety be denominated POLITICAL, as they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself.
But Pelosi has taken a different path. The speaker announced yesterday she had instructed the six House committees that already have open investigations of Trump—Judiciary, Intelligence, Ways and Means, Financial Services, Oversight and Foreign Affairs—to proceed with their investigations"under that umbrella of impeachment inquiry."
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