Nancy Pelosi launched Trump Impeachment inquiry following Ukraine crisis

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The U.S House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has announced that Democrats are pushing ahead with a formal impeachment investigation of the U.S President Donald Trump. It is triggering the greatest threat yet to his presidency and ensuring the 2020 election will be dominated to the issue. The House speaker said the president had crossed a line with his controversial call to the president of Ukraine, after months of having resisted calls from members of her party to press ahead with a censure of a man many believe has abused his position many times over. She said on Capitol Hill, “The president must be held accountable. No one is above the law. Therefore today I’m announcing the House of Representatives is moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry”.

Pelosi is taking a considerable risk for setting in motion formal impeachment hearings against a sitting president for just the 4^th time in the history of America. She has long feared such a move could energize the president’s own supporters, ahead of an election campaign that is already on course to be ugly and bitter. She also knows that when Republicans in the House impeached Bill Clinton in 1998. The move wasn’t subsequently supported by the U.S Senate. A number of senior Republicans suffered at the hands of voters when they next went to the polls. It was the clearest indication of how Trump’s supporters will react to the move.

It came from the president himself who immediately responded in a tweetstorm while still in New York, where earlier in the day he addressed the United Nations, General Assembly. Trump wrote, “Such an important day at the United Nations, so much work and so much success, and the Democrats purposely had to ruin and demean it with more breaking news Witch Hunt garbage. So bad for our country. They never even saw the transcript of the call. A total Witch Hunt”! He said in capital letters, “PRESIDENTIAL HARASSMENT“! An impeachment inquiry had already technically been underway since the chair of the House Judiciary Committee Jerry Nadler last month filed a series of legal motions seeking specially protected evidence from special counsel Robert Mueller’s inquiry into Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 election.