Rep. Val Demings (D-FL) said that Democrats are entering the phase of impeachment and are closer to impeaching Donald Trump.
Rep. Demings said on MSNBC’s The Beat with Ari Melber, “I think we are much closer. Because the second phase of this process is to move into public hearings, give the president of the United States an opportunity to respond, which we would certainly love to hear from him. And then we will move to give the reports from all of the committees with jurisdiction over to the Judiciary Committee. I also sit on that committee and we would be responsible for reviewing it, and writing articles of impeachment.”
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Thursday’s vote is a big moment in the history of the nation. The vote that formalizes the rules of the impeachment process will bring Trump even closer to becoming only the third president in US history to be impeached. Trump will be the only president in the history of the country to run for reelection after being impeached.
The process has moved faster than many thought it could because Donald Trump handed Democrats the case for his impeachment on a silver platter. Even the edited Ukraine call transcript was enough evidence to get the ball rolling downhill. Witnesses from within the administration are so troubled by Trump’s behavior that they are willing to come forward and testify.
By later 2019 or early 2020, Donald Trump will be impeached.
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