TheHouse Judiciary Committeewill vote on the articles of(impeachment) againstDonald Trumpon Friday after an abrupt end to Thursday’s – hour marathon debate over their merits, a session characterized byRepublicanstalling and heated protestations.
Senate majority leaderMitch McConnellmeanwhile gave an interview toSean HannityonFox News) yesterday evening and pledged “total co-ordination” between GOP senators and the White House should a trial take place in January, raising fresh concerns about impartiality.
President Trump himself has congratulated British prime ministerBoris Johnsonover his party’s landslide win in the UK general election on a record-breaking day of tweets and his hosting of the Christmas Congressional Ball at Pennsylvania Avenue.
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Following a 13 – minute hearing, Texas Republican Louie Gohmert says Today is a “sad day for the country” after “three years of hell” for Donald Trump.
“This was a kangaroo court”, he told reporters after the vote.
Republican Debbie Lesko called it a “travesty” that “railroaded” an investigation – which took place over several weeks, included a – page report following several hours of witness testimonies, and led to several days of judiciary hearings that included Republican participation, which mostly amounted to criticizing Democrats.
House committee supports articles of impeachment, full House set to impeach Donald Trump
The House of Representatives is set to begin the process of removing a president from office for the fourth time in US history , as the House Judiciary Committee voted on party lines to send articles of impeachment to Congress.
Donald Trump is charged with obstruction of justice for his attempts to block testimony in his impeachment inquiry, from which he’s also been charged for abuses of power in his dealings with Ukraine.
The House committee’s 15 – hour-long hearing on Wednesday came to an abrupt end so Democrats, they said, could bring the historic moment to the light of day.
Now for the obstruction of justice charge:
Another 23 – (vote in support.
Both votes were on party lines, with all Republicans opposed.
The charges now head to the full House.
And the voting begins on the committee’s first article of impeachment against Donald Trump for abuses of power.
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Rather than vote in the middle of the night, Republicans now are complaining that the impeachment vote from the House Judiciary Committee will be held today.
Doug Collins: ” The chairman just ambushed the entire committee and did not have any consultation with the ranking member. “
Adam Schiff: ‘This is about what’s going on today’************
The House Intelligence Committee chair was onThe Late Showwith Stephen Colbert last night to say that the Trump administration misconduct uncovered by the impeachment inquiry is still ongoing and that the Republicans who have defended him face a future of “nothing but shame”.
We’re moments away from a third day of impeachment hearings at the House Judiciary Committee following a last-minute, late-night break after yesterday’s 14 – hour hearing.
It’s Friday the 15 th.
Republicans have some new visual aids. From
The Independent ‘s Andrew Feinberg, who’s reporting from inside the room:
Trump promotesFox and Friends, slamsWall Street Journal
What else is new, right?
Here’s the latest from El Presidente as he continues to fight the impeachment fight on Twitter by denouncing his media rivals and saying it would be “crazy” to remove someone who has achieved as much as he
Senate recognizes Armenian genocide in defiance of Trump
The Senate has passed a resolution recognizing the Ottoman Empire’s killings of Armenians in the early 20 th century as a genocide, a move that Trump’s administration has tried to block several times.
Alex Woodward has the full story below.
Trump team considering drafting in controversial lawyer for impeachment defense
The president’s impeachment defense operation, reportedly running out of a bunker beneath the Oval Office, is said to be planning to draft in professor and attorney Alan Dershowitz to boost its cause.
Dershowitz spoke at the White House Hanukkah party on Wednesday and has been regularly called upon to appear on Fox to promote arguments in the president of the president.
Dershowitz has even been forced to vehemently deny allegations made by Virginia Roberts Giuffre in courts documents that she was lent out to him for sex by Epstein,according to ABC News.
Lara Trump derided for claiming president ‘fighting for animals’
Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump is being ridiculed online for claiming the president is “fighting for all Americans, and animals too ! “
This image naturally featured prominently in the responses:
Her tweet would have been laughable anyway even if it did not follow immediately on the heels of this atrocity from her brother-in-law …
Speaker declines to pressure moderate Democrats on impeachment
Nancy Pelosi and House minority leader Kevin McCarthy gave competing press conferences yesterday as the impeachment briefing war continued.
The speaker said she would not be pressuring moderate Democrats to back the president’s ousting, after a group of 10 Reportedly discussed their preference for simply censuring Trump instead to avoid alienating voters in their home states.
“I have no message to them. We are not whipping this legislation, nor would we ever with something like this,” Pelosi told reporters in the Capitol. “They’ll make their own decisions. I don’t say anything to them.”
She also elaborated on her reasons for not including bribery among the articles of impeachment and got in a particularly pithy jab at Trump too:
Trump attempts to spin abrupt Judgment hearing finish
The president’s first tweets of the day find him praising Republicans and attempting to spin the latest impeachment hearings, quoting that uncited poll state he loves so much and knocking Pelosi.
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