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READ: Impeachment Inquiry Report By House Intelligence Committee

https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2019/11/26/ap_19325554216583_wide-c15f2a6991cbc6ea5afe24d359df3bb03b37b760-s800-c85.jpgHouse Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif. (center); ranking member Rep. Devin Nunes of California (right); and committee counsel Daniel GoldmanΓ‚ hold an impeachment inquiry hearing onΓ‚ Nov. 21. Schiff has released the panel's report on the inquiry. Matt McClain/AP

Updated at 2:15 p.m. ET

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., has released a report that outlines the findings from public hearings and closed-door interviews conducted by impeachment investigators since late September.

"The impeachment inquiry has found that President Trump, personally and acting through agents within and outside of the U.S. government, solicited the interference of a foreign government, Ukraine, to benefit his reelection," Schiff wrote in the 300-page report.

The inquiry, formally launched in September after a whistleblower complaint, has centered on an effort to get Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter.

"[T]he President placed his own personal and political interests above the national interests of the United States, sought to undermine the integrity of the U.S. presidential election process, and endangered U.S. national security."

Read the House Intelligence Committee report here.

Republicans released their own report on Monday, arguing that Democrats had not proven "evidence of bribery, extortion, or any high crime or misdemeanor." The minority party's prebuttal to Schiff's summary cast the inquiry as a partisan attack on Trump.

The Intelligence

Committee report marks triggers the next step of the impeachment process, in which the House Judiciary Committee becomes the central player.

Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., and the members of that committee will use the Intelligence Committee report as well as additional information requested through committee procedures to determine if the facts support writing articles of impeachment.

If the Judiciary Committee does write and approve articles of impeachment, those articles would then go to the full House of Representatives. If the House votes to impeach Trump, the Republican-led Senate will begin a trial on whether to remove the president.

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Baseman posted:
Demerara_Guy posted:

Shit will indeed be flying in all parts of the Republican party and they will be inundated with the stuff.

Democrats will be the victors in the House of Representatives, Senate and also for the office of resident in November 2020.  

Office of the resident?

resident =

Resident indeed.

THE Resident of the White House, United States.

FM

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