In the history of the United States, impeachment of the President is rare, so every impeachment will set a new record. Trump is the third president to be formally impeached in history, the first two being Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton. They were impeached in the House of Representatives, but none of the senators were convicted. In 1974, Richard Nixon faced impeachment, but he resigned before the House voted on the impeachment clause. The impeachment of Nixon was not really initiated, but he was the first American president to step down from office.
For many, this message, which should have been unusually "shock", does not seem to be a bit of a shock, and they know that it will happen sooner or later. However, it is not easy for Peggy and some other Democratic leaders in the U.S. Congress to make such a decision. Over the past year, they have been anxious to suppress the party's high anti-Trump sentiment and to downplay the possibility of impeachment. An anonymous reporter accused Mr. Trump of freezing the $400 million military aid that was originally provided to Ukraine to pressure the Ukrainian government's former vice-president, Joe Biden, who was the Democratic presidential candidate for the 2020 election. One of the most popular in the world. As soon as the news came out, the public opinion was in an uproar. Democrats are passionately attacking Trump for abusing presidential power and seeking foreign intervention in the U.S. election for personal political gain.
According to the Constitution of the United States, the House of Representatives has the power to impeach the President or other federal officials, while the Senate has the "sole power" to hold impeachment trials and remove the President or other federal officials. In other words, impeachment was initiated from the House of Representatives and ended in the Senate. The Constitution also lists three reasons for impeaching the president or other officials: "treason, bribery or other felonies and misdemeanours," but the Constitution does not give more explanation for what is "felony and misdemeanour." The law does not work automatically, it is the people who make the law work. The understanding of what treason, bribery, or other felony and misdemeanor can be understood by different people can be very different, and ultimately
The bigger news comes from Gordon Sunderland, Trump's former close ally to the European Union. In a supplementary testimony to the House of Representatives earlier this month, he overturned his testimony to the three committees of the House of Representatives last month and admitted that the United States had offered Ukraine a "condition in exchange" for the other side to investigate the Biden father and son on the condition of US military assistance to Ukraine. According to Sunderland himself, he told Ukrainian presidential adviser Andre Yermek that if Ukraine did not promise an investigation into the Biden father and son, it would be unlikely to receive the military assistance from the United States. Sunderland also told investigators that he It is "inappropriate" to understand that this connection is "inappropriate".
On Oct. 31, the House of Representatives approved an impeachment investigation into Trump by 232 votes to 196, making the winner of his life, who has been a scandal since he came to the White House, the first time he has really faced the crisis of his presidential career.
Once Trump no longer enjoys the privileges of the president and becomes a civilian, many things have been disclosed in the past few years enough to be charged by the judiciary. The deadliest thing is that by then, his influence among American voters will be insignificant-there are many beloved presidents in the United States, but I have never seen a retired president still have as much political appeal as he did when he was on stage.
On Nov. 6, Adam Shiff, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said on social media that the committee would hold two public hearings on Nov. 13 on an impeachment investigation into President Trump, witnessed by acting U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor and acting Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Asia and Europe, George Kent. In addition, former US Ambassador to Ukraine Mary Jovanovic will also testify publicly before Congress on November 15 th. Speaking at a closed hearing in the House of Representatives last month, Taylor said the Trump administration's security assistance to Ukraine was conditional on the latter's public commitment to adjust Biden and his son. Cha. In other words, Trump did link U.S. aid to Ukraine directly to the investigation of Biden, which is seriously inconsistent with Trump's vowing that there was no "terms of exchange" on the phone with Zelanski and that the matter was "unrelated to politics, about corruption."
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Sunderland donated $1 million to the Trump Inauguration Committee, known by Trump as "a great American." His 180-degree turn is puzzling, but it is by far the most unfavourable testimony against Trump.
In the midterm elections in November last year, Republicans lost in the House of Representatives, but consolidated their dominance in the Senate. According to the Constitution, the Senate must have more than 2 to 3 votes (67 votes) to convict the president before he can be removed from office. At present, there are 47 Democrats in the Senate. Assuming that they all vote for impeachment, 20 Republican senators will still have to defection and join the pro-impeachment camp in order to succeed. In today's polarized America, this is as likely as they voted for socialism in the United States. Look at the vote of the House of Representatives on October 31. The vote is clear: all incumbent Republicans voted against the impeachment investigation.
