Slade Gorton said members of his party are betraying the country and the Constitution by refusing to accept that Trump should be impeached for shaking down Ukraine.
A former longtime GOP senator said members of his party are betraying the country and the Constitution by refusing to confront the fact that President Donald Trump should be impeached for"shaking down" Ukraine.
According to the former senator, now 91, the Ukraine scandal involving Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and several administration officials is a clear-cut case that demands impeachment. Gorton repeatedly stressed it was not pleasant to part ways with the Republican Party or the president in the 1970s, on both a political level—Nixon easily won Washington state—and on a personal one, given that the move tested his loyalty to his conservative colleagues. But Gorton reiterated that the purpose of impeachment is, at the very least, to view the facts and not to hide from them.
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