Momentum for impeachment grew after reports that Trump may have pressured Ukraine’s president to investigate former vice president and potential 2020 campaign rival Joe Biden and his family.
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Majority of House Democrats backs impeachment
A tally by The Washington Post finds momentum to at least open an inquiry.
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Maine’s politicians divided on what to do in wake of Cohen plea deal
Maine politicians are divided on how to respond to the guilty plea Tuesday by President Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, who implicated the president in illegal payoffs to two women with whom Trump allegedly had affairs. Cohen said the payoffs, or hush money, were to keep the women quiet before the 2016 election. While […]
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11 House Republicans seek impeachment of DOJ's Rosenstein
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans sharply escalated their months-long clash with the Justice Department as a group of 11 conservatives introduced articles of impeachment against Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, the official who oversees special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. The move late Wednesday came after months of criticism aimed at the department — and […]
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Maintain faith in America’s political system
WASHINGTON — I am not a big or even a little fan of President Donald Trump. Many of his policies strike me as undesirable, some in the extreme. His background and temperament have not prepared him for the presidency. He is largely ignorant of many issues he must face. And yet, for all this, the […]
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Angus King says the president’s impeachment is possible
Following a report that President Donald Trump told the FBI director to end its investigation into Russian ties to the Republican presidential campaign, U.S. Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, said late Tuesday that impeachment is possible. During a television interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, Maine’s independent junior senator was asked if Trump is getting close to […]
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Trump a flawed individual
I was watching and listening to Donald Trump at a campaign-style rally in Nashville, Tennessee, on March 15. I noticed how happy and alive he seemed in front of his adoring followers. I couldn’t help but realize how unhappy and unnatural he seems in the White House. How often he seems to prefer going to […]
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Lawmakers say Paul LePage is lying about 2013 ‘bribe’ offer
“It’s a little bit unfair the way I’ve been treated and people who try to bribe me get off scot-free and then I tell the truth and I get demonized.” — Maine Gov. Paul LePage AUGUSTA — A pair of state representatives who led the failed attempt to bring impeachment proceedings against Republican Gov. […]
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Effort to impeach Gov. Paul LePage fails in Maine House
AUGUSTA — After a nearly three-hour debate Thursday, the House of Representatives voted 96-52 to kill an effort to bring an investigation that might have led to an impeachment trial in the state Senate for firebrand Republican Gov. Paul LePage. The successful vote on the motion to indefinitely postpone taking action on the issue largely removes […]
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Maine House kills effort to impeach Gov. Paul LePage
UPDATE: Effort to impeach Gov. Paul LePage fails in Maine House AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The latest on a legislative attempt to impeach Republican Gov. Paul LePage (all times local): UPDATED 2:50 p.m.: Maine Gov. Paul LePage says an attempt to launch an impeachment investigation amounted to a “nonsense” and “foolishness.” The Republican issued the statement […]