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#Impeach #Trump #Impeachmenthearing A legal scholar  testifying at the first House Judiciary Committee impeachment hearing  on Wednesday says that President Donald Trump's actions are "worse than the misconduct of any prior president." "The President's serious misconduct, including bribery, soliciting a personal favor from a foreign leader in exchange for his exercise of power, and obstructing justice and Congress are worse than the misconduct of any prior president, including what previous presidents who faced impeachment have done or been accused of doing," Michael Gerhardt, a North Carolina University law professor, said in  his written statement  to the committee. Gerhardt is one of four legal scholars testifying Wednesday at the public hearing that marks  an important shift  in the Democratic impeachment process following  the report issued by the House Intelligence Committee  on Tuesday detailing their allegations against Trump in his dea

#Trump  #AllanLichtman #Impeach A historian who predicted every presidential election since 1984 has said impeachment by the full House is "inevitable" and warned Democrats against putting a "time limit" on their inquiry. American University history professor Allan Lichtman, who forecast Trump's election win two months before the fact, told MSNBC yesterday that Democrats would never have taken the impeachment process this far if they were not confident of passing articles of impeachment against the president. Speaking on the Weekends with Alex Witt show, the historian also said Democrats had "helped themselves" and "diminished" Trump's chances of being reelected in 2020 by launching an impeachment inquiry. "Impeachment is now inevitable," Lichtman told Alex Witt. "The Democrats would never have taken it this far—we know how cautious Nancy Pelosi is—without actually voting articles of impeachment in the full house

#Trump #Impeach #House #Senate #ResignTrump A leading Democratic organizer has predicted that the impeachment investigation could spell the end for President Donald Trump, by prompting either internal betrayal or forcing the commander in chief to hand the reins over to the vice president. Jon Cooper, the chairman of the Democratic Coalition, suggested on Sunday that Trump is on very thin ice and—despite his stubborn promises to win re-election in 2020—may not even make it to the next presidential contest. The White House is currently struggling to fight off allegations that Trump effectively attempted to bribe the Ukrainian government into interfering in the 2020 election by opening an investigation into Democratic candidate Joe Biden. The accusations spawned a House Democrat-led impeachment investigation into the president, which has produced damaging testimony from a range of senior State Department and National Security Council officials. Public hearings began last week