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Thu Sep 26, 2019, 06:48 PM Sep 2019

Pelosi leaves door open on Impeachment Inquiry scope.

Pelosi Says Impeachment Inquiry Is All About Ukraine – for Now



In a press conference held while the acting director of national intelligence, Joseph Maguire, was testifying before the House Intelligence Committee, Speaker Nancy Pelosi made it clearer than before that the impeachment inquiry she announced yesterday would — for now, at least — focus exclusively on the president’s dealings with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Indeed, she indicated that the House Intelligence Committee would have the primary responsibility for uncovering the facts that might or might not justify actual articles of impeachment (she was adamant that no decision had been made on the ultimate outcome of the “inquiry”).

Pelosi did hold open the possibility that previous examples of the president’s “lawlessness” could be the subject of impeachment articles if the House went in that direction, as many of those who supported impeachment before the Ukraine scandal broke into public view are insisting upon.
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All in all, it’s obvious she wants to keep the heat on Trump & Co. for the Ukraine scandal, and play it as it lays as events unfold. Nothing she’s said precludes a broader impeachment inquiry, but clearly, that’s a decision she is determined to delay. - NY MAG


So for instance, if tRump were to threaten to kill whistleblowers and anyone else he determines is an enemy of the United States, that might also get added to the charges? Just thinking out loud.
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Pelosi leaves door open on Impeachment Inquiry scope. (Original Post) ffr Sep 2019 OP
Wow,this Lady has got this! Wellstone ruled Sep 2019 #1
K&R, uponit7771 Sep 2019 #2
Exactly.. Thank you, Nancy! Cha Sep 2019 #3
Or for instance if more children were to die in the prison camps? Good. Hortensis Sep 2019 #4
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