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Protesters Call For President Trump’s Ouster In Pro-Impeachment Rallies
House Impeaches Trump For Abuse Of Power
SAN FRANCISCO – Thou- sands of activists gathered in plazas and on street corners around the Bay Area and across the country Tuesday to back the impeachment of President Donald Trump ahead of an expected vote Wednesday in the House of Representatives.
“We have this soulless man in the White House and it’s time for us to get rid of him,” Oakland resident Helen Neville said at a rally outside the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland. “To save our democ- racy is the really important thing, because if we don’t pro- tect the constitution, we lose our democracy. A president who thinks he’s above the law
is not a president.”
Activists said they hoped
Trump would be held ac- countable for using U. S. for- eign aid as leverage in seeking and advantage in the 2020 elections and obstructing con- gressional investigations of his conduct.
By turning out in force, many also hoped to rebuke Trump’s recent suggestions that Americans don’t care about the issue, scoffing at low TV ratings during the im- peachment hearings and ridi- culing congressional efforts as “impeachment light.” Promi- nent Republicans have also dismissed the effort as parti- san in nature and pledged to defend Trump.
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House Democrats on Wednesday impeached President Trump for abus- ing his power, the first of two impeachment articles the lower chamber is poised to adopt in historic votes alleg- ing the president is unfit for office.
Lawmakers voted 230- 197 to impeach Trump for abusing his power, with two Democrats, Reps. Collin Peterson (Minn.) and Jef- ferson Van Drew (N.J.), crossing the aisle in dissent. Another Democrat, 2020 White House contender Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (Hawaii), voted present. Re- publicans, meanwhile, re- mained unified in their defense of the president, de- scribing the impeachment in- quiry as a purely partisan pursuit spearheaded by De- mocrats still embittered by the results of the 2016 elec- tion.
The House is poised to soon take up a second article of impeachment charging Trump with obstruction of Congress, which is also ex-
Military officials said they are looking into what ap- peared to be white su- premacist hand signs made by students before the Army-Navy football game on Saturday.
Pregame festivities aired by ESPN showed cadets on both sides of the rivalry — two West Point cadets and one Naval Academy mid- shipman — making gestures as a camera focused on a sideline report from jour- nalist Rece Davis.
At least one of the ges- tures resembled a white su- premacist symbol described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as "the thumb
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pected to pass easily in a sim- ilar party-line vote. Aside from Peterson and Van Drew, Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) has also said he’ll oppose the obstruction charge despite supporting the abuse-of-power article.
The historic vote makes Trump just the third presi- dent to be impeached in the nation’s history — and the first to suffer that indignity in his first term.
The vote marked the cul- mination of the Democrats’
months-long investigation into Trump’s handling of for- eign policy in Kyiv, triggered in September by a govern- ment whistleblower's allega- tion that the president had abused his powers in with- holding military aid and the promise of a White House meeting to press Ukrainian leaders to launch anti-cor- ruption investigations that might have helped his reelec- tion in 2020.
Dressed in black to mark the somber occasion, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) framed the extraordinary maneuver as a congressional obligation — the Constitu- tion’s only remedy for pro- tecting America’s democratic institutions from a lawless president who would seek foreign help to sway a U. S. election.
“If we do not act now, we would be derelict in our duty,” Pelosi said.
“It is tragic that the pres- ident’s reckless actions make impeachment necessary,” she added. “He gave us no choice.”
Military Investigates Possible White Power Signs Flashed By Students During Army-Navy Telecast
and forefinger joined to- gether in a circle, the re- maining three fingers splayed out behind."
"West Point is looking into it and we do not know the intent of the cadets," said Lt. Col. Christopher Ophardt, director of pub-
lic affairs, in an email. Cmdr. Alana Garas of the Naval Academy said in an email, "We are aware
and will be looking into it." The Navy won the 120th annual game 31-7. It was kicked off with the help of President Donald Trump, who took the field during the coin toss and vis- ited both teams' locker rooms beforehand to shake
hands with the players. Davis was doing a standup segment at Lincoln Financial Field when a cadet held up a flag that read "Go Army Beat Navy"
and began laughing. Someone on the Mid-
shipmen side who was out of the frame then appeared to make the one-handed symbol, which looks like a W and a P, and continued until someone wearing a glove tapped him on the hand.
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