Last week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi launched a formal inquiry into President Trump’s conduct with Ukraine. Here’s how we got here.
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House Speaker Pelosi calls Trump’s actions a ‘betrayal of national security’
Momentum for impeachment grew after reports that Trump may have pressured Ukraine’s president to investigate former vice president and potential 2020 campaign rival Joe Biden and his family.
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Democratic leaders urge Trump to intervene with Senate Republicans on gun bill
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer say the president’s ‘urgent, personal intervention is needed.’
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Majority of House Democrats backs impeachment
A tally by The Washington Post finds momentum to at least open an inquiry.
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Nancy Pelosi defends Baltimore, calls Jared Kushner a ‘slumlord’
The House speaker says if President Trump wants to belittle her hometown as rat-infested, then he should consult his son-in-law, whose family real estate firm owns thousands of apartments and townhomes in the Baltimore area.
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Marc A. Thiessen: Mueller’s testimony good for Trump – and Pelosi
Some Democrats keep pushing for impeachment, but the former special counsel’s testimony did not give them much to work with.
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Analysis: Mueller’s testimony likely ends Democrats’ hopes for impeachment
The special counsel adds little to what was in his report, and President Trump’s supporters are calling Wednesday’s hearing a victory.
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House votes to kill impeachment resolution against Trump
Democrats vote, 137 to 95, to table the resolution in a move designed to avoid a direct vote on whether to impeach the president.
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Maine Observer: Biden is not too old to be president, but some may be too young
Experience presents an opportunity for growth and maturity – all good things to have in a leader.
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At site of D-Day ceremony, Trump calls Mueller ‘a fool,’ says Pelosi is ‘a disaster’
The president conducted the television interview at the site of a solemn ceremony in France commemorating the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion.