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US House of Representatives Pass Trump’s Impeachment Inquiry Vote

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The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution laying out the next steps in the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump. The final resolution vote was 232-196.

 

The vote was entirely along party lines.

No Republican joined the Democrats.

Meanwhile, former GOP Rep.

Justin Amash voted for the resolution while Two Democrat, Reps.

Jeff Van Drew and Collin Peterson voted against the resolution.

But the partisan breakdown of the vote shows the uphill battle Democrats will face as they try to convince their Republican colleagues that Trump should be removed from office.

Since late September, House Democrats have been building their case that Trump abused his powers as president by asking the president of Ukraine to announce an investigation of one of his political rivals, former Vice President Joe Biden, and to cooperate with Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani to validate a right-wing conspiracy theory about the 2016 election.

A July 25 phone call between Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky alarmed multiple U.S. government officials and sparked a whistleblower complaint.

In closed-door interviews conducted by the House Intelligence Committee, witnesses have testified that nearly $400 million in military aid was withheld by the Trump administration to compel the government in Kyiv to comply.

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