Speaker Nancy Pelosi delivered a blunt warning to the Trump administration over its refusal to share details of an explosive whistleblower complaint
pressing Ukranian officials to investigate the son of former Vice President Joe Biden, the Democratic frontrunner in the 2020 presidential contest.That kind of stonewalling, she said, would lead Democrats “into a whole new stage of investigation” — marking her most forceful response yet to reports that Trump sought help from a foreign government to find dirt on a political rival. Still, Pelosi did not address the single biggest question on the mind of her caucus: impeachment.
“We very well may have crossed the Rubicon here,” Schiff said, later adding: “It may be that we do have to move forward with that extraordinary remedy.” Democratic leaders are unlikely to act before at least Thursday, when the House Intelligence Committee will hear directly from the acting director of national intelligence, Joseph Maguire.
Pelosi that impeaching Trump would drown out the party’s legislative agenda and endanger its majority in 2020.Sign Up As they return to Washington this week, House Democrats will be closely eyeing reaction from Republicans, who, so far, have stood by Trump as he’s been accused of possible obstruction of justice by special counsel Robert Mueller, and linked to a campaign finance violation that sent his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen to prison.
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