Published 22:10 IST, October 3rd 2019
Trump Impeachment: Candidates slam Trump, defend inquiry call
Democratic presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker and Kamala Harris on October 2, defended the impeachment inquiry against the US President Trump
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The Democratic presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker and Kamala Harris on October 2, defended the impeachment inquiry against the US President Donald Trump at a candidate forum in Las Vegas.
GOP veterans of Clinton’s impeachment urge caution on Trump
The Republicans who carried out President Bill Clinton’s impeachment in 1998 are unanimous in urging caution and restraint as Congress embarks on yet another impeachment struggle, this time over accusations that President Donald Trump pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to investigate his political rival Joe Biden and Biden’s son.
The impeachment veterans of two decades ago were thrust into a seismic political event that was sober and circus-like at the same time. It opened a new, angry chapter of American politics that strained Washington institutions that were stronger then than now. They urge a pause in the tribalism of the Trump era.
“You’ve got a race to judgment, people apparently have already made up their minds, and I don’t think there’s a lot of openness about this. And I think there should be,” said former Rep. Bill McCollum, R-Fla., one of 14 House impeachment managers who presented the case against Clinton to the Senate.
People ought to wait before they make a judgment on whether or not there’s even an impeachable offense out here to be considered until all the facts are on the table,” he added. “That’s not been the case for a number of congressmen on both sides of the aisle that I can see.”
The managers during Clinton’s impeachment were all solidly conservative white men. Most are out of politics. A few are judges. Some do some lobbying, while others have simply retired. The chairman, Henry Hyde of Illinois, died in 2007.
16:36 IST, October 3rd 2019