'You'll have a very Democratic Senate next year,' former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld said.
Former President Richard Nixon resigned from the presidency in 1974 to avoid being impeached. His successor and former vice president, President Gerald Ford, then fully and unconditionally pardoned Nixon for any crimes he may have committed. In what was widely seen as fallout from the Watergate scandal,Trump and his supporters have dismissed the impeachment inquiry, formally launched by Democrats at the end of September, as purely"partisan" and a"witch hunt.
"By all appearances, the President's brazen and unprecedented appeal to China and to Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden is wrong and appalling," Senator Mitt Romney, a Republican from Utah, posted to Twitter on Friday.Trump's White House centers on the president pressuring Ukraine to open an investigation to tarnish his political rival, Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden.
Republican presidential candidate Bill Weld speaks during a Presidential Candidates Forum at the 2019 NABJ Annual Convention & Career Fair held at the J.W. Marriott Miami Turnberry Resort & Spa on August 8 in Miami.Doubling down on his pressure campaign, Trump said last week that China should also investigate the unsubstantiated allegations against Biden.
Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine slammed the president after he called on China to investigate his political rival."I thought the president made a big mistake by asking China to get involved in investigating a political opponent,"
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