- House Democrats approved an impeachment inquiry into the president
- ‘What is at stake is our democracy. What are we fighting for? Defending our democracy for the people,’ Speaker Pelosi said
- The vote was 232 in favor with 196 voting no
- ‘The Greatest Witch Hunt In American History!,’ Trump tweeted afterward
- Trump spent morning tweeting and retweeting words from his supporters
- He called on Republicans to stand together and back him
- The resolution outlines how the impeachment investigation will proceed and what rights the president will have during it
- Republicans complained about the lack of ‘due process’ for Trump and charged Democrats with trying to overturn the 2016 election
- White House counselor Kellyanne Conway said the administration is considering bringing aboard additional staff to combat the impeachment inquiry
- The vote comes as Tim Morrison, who was Trump’s top adviser for Russian and European affairs, testifies behind closed doors in the impeachment inquiry
A divided House of Representatives voted on Thursday to begin the next stage of the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, taking the investigation from behind closed doors to Americans’ television screens with a series of public hearings.
Republican and Democratic lawmakers took to the House floor to engage in a bitter debate over the impeachment process before voting largely along party lines on the resolution.
Democrats focused on their constitutional duty; they talked about following the law and protecting national security interests.
Republicans railed against the process, echoing a White House argument there is no due process for the president and no Republican in-put into the proceedings, and accused their colleagues across the aisle of trying to overturn the 2016 election.
Other than the fact that someone needs to tell Pelosi that we have a Constitutional Republic, not a Democracy, this is not news. What did you expect would happen?