White House press secretary
Stephanie Grisham portrayed the vote as a partisan
exercise.
“The President has done nothing
wrong, and the Democrats know it. Nancy Pelosi and
the Democrats’ unhinged obsession with this
illegitimate impeachment proceeding does not hurt
President Trump; it hurts the American people,”
Grisham said in a written statement.
House Intelligence Committee
Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who has led the
impeachment inquiry to date, referenced the Founding
Fathers when speaking of the need to hold Trump
accountable.
“This is a solemn day in the history
of our country, when the president’s misconduct has
compelled us to continue to move forward with an
impeachment inquiry,” Schiff said at a news
conference held following the passage of the
measure, adding, “The Founding Fathers understood
that a leader might take hold of the Oval Office who
would sacrifice the national security, who would
fail to defend the Constitution, who would place his
personal and political interests above the interests
of the country. They understood that might happen,
and they provided a mechanism to deal with it, and
that mechanism is called impeachment.”
The two Democrats to vote no were
Rep. Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey and Rep. Collin
Peterson of Minnesota.
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 Kiev to
comply.
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