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NRaleighLiberal

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Wed Dec 18, 2019, 10:09 PM Dec 2019

Life happens fast. The orange asshole's Wikipedia page, intro, last two paragraphs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump

A special counsel investigation led by Robert Mueller found that Trump and his campaign welcomed and encouraged Russian foreign interference in the 2016 presidential election under the belief that it would be politically advantageous, but did not find sufficient evidence to press charges of criminal conspiracy or coordination[d] with Russia. Mueller also investigated Trump for obstruction of justice, and his report neither indicted nor exonerated Trump on that score. A 2019 House impeachment inquiry found that in the Trump–Ukraine scandal, Trump solicited foreign interference in the 2020 U.S. presidential election to help his re-election bid, and then obstructed the inquiry itself. The inquiry reported that Trump withheld military aid and a White House invitation in order to influence Ukraine to publicly announce investigations into Trump's political rivals. On December 13, 2019, the House Judiciary Committee approved two articles of impeachment: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.

On December 18, 2019, Trump became the third US President to be impeached by the House of Representatives. A Senate trial is pending.

And the past two paragraphs of the Wikipedia entry, under the Impeachment subcategory - note the typo - incorrect date! (person editing the page too excited, I bet!)

On December 3, 2019, the House Intelligence Committee published a report authored by Democrats on the committee, stating that "the impeachment inquiry has found that President Trump, personally and acting through agents within and outside of the U.S. government, solicited the interference of a foreign government, Ukraine, to benefit his reelection." The report stated that Trump withheld military aid and a White House invitation in order to influence Ukraine to announce investigations into Trump's political rivals. Furthermore, the report described Trump was the only U.S. president thus far to have "openly and indiscriminately" defied impeachment proceedings by telling his administration officials to ignore subpoenas for documents and testimony.[822][823][824]:8,208 The Republicans of the House Committees had released a draft of a countering report the previous day, saying in part that the evidence "does not prove any of these Democrat allegations, and none of the Democrats' witnesses testified to having evidence of bribery, extortion, or any high crime or misdemeanor."[825][826]

On December 13, 2019, the House Judiciary Committee voted along party lines to pass two articles of impeachment: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. They will be forwarded to the full House for debate and a vote on whether to actually impeach the President.[827]
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Life happens fast. The orange asshole's Wikipedia page, intro, last two paragraphs (Original Post) NRaleighLiberal Dec 2019 OP
His legacy. sheshe2 Dec 2019 #1
Yes!! klook Dec 2019 #2
Great. But I hope it gets moved up to the first paragraph. StarfishSaver Dec 2019 #3
Love this Hekate Dec 2019 #4
K&R UTUSN Dec 2019 #5
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