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Majority Of House Members Now Back Some Type Of Impeachment Action Against Trump
Two hundred and nine- teen House Democrats and one independent — a major- ity of the chamber's 435 members — now favor some kind of impeachment action against President Donald Trump, according to an NBC News tally.
House Democrats reached the milestone a day after Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced a formal impeachment inquiry into the president following claims that he might have withheld aid to Ukraine to pressure officials there to in- vestigate former Vice Pres- ident Joe Biden and his son.
That nearly all House De- mocrats support some kind
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of impeachment action rep- resents a significant develop- ment in the chamber's push forward with official im- peachment proceedings.
Whistleblower Complaint Says White House Officials Acted To 'Lock Down' Record Of Trump-Ukraine Call
A whistleblower's com- plaint about President Donald Trump, made pub- lic on Thursday, says White House officials were so con- cerned about what the presi- dent said in a July call with Ukraine's new leader that they intervened to "lock down" the transcript of the conversation.
The whistleblower, whose name and gender has not been released, lodged the for- mal complaint out of a belief that Trump was "using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country" in the 2020 election.
In the call, Trump dis- cussed having Ukrainian President Volodymyr Ze- lenskiy help investigate the Biden family's business deal- ings. The matter is now the subject of a formal impeach-
ment inquiry that was launched by the House this week.
"The interference in- cludes, among other things, pressuring a foreign country to investigate one of the pres- ident's main domestic politi- cal rivals," the whistleblower
wrote. "The president's per- sonal lawyer, Mr. Rudolph Giuliani, is a central figure in this effort. Attorney Gen- eral (William) Barr ap- pears to be involved as well."
The complaint, which was made public with minimal redactions, makes clear there are witnesses who can back up the account, and it indi- cates concern over the inter- nal handling of the White House record of the phone
callT. he whistleblower says White House officials told them the conversation on July 25 between Trump and Ze- lenskiy was removed from the computer system that is typically used for such records of calls with foreign leaders.
Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire delivers his opening statement on the whistleblower complaint of a phone call between President Trump and the president of Ukraine to the House Intelligence Committee
Meeting
Middleton High School Class Of 1970
The Planning Meeting for the 50th Class Reunion will be held on Saturday, October 5, 2019. The meeting will be held in the West Tampa Branch Library, 2312 W. Union St., 10:30 a. m. – 1 p. m.
Raffle tickets for the holi- day giveaway will be distrib- uted. Also, vital information for the 2020 reunion will be discussed.
Please bring another classmate with you.
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