{"id":199788,"date":"2019-12-20T14:31:44","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T14:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/onpolitics-the-president-is-impeached.html"},"modified":"2019-12-20T14:31:44","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T14:31:44","slug":"onpolitics-the-president-is-impeached","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/city\/hawaii\/onpolitics-the-president-is-impeached.html","title":{"rendered":"OnPolitics: &#8216;The boss is impeached.&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"gnt_em gnt_em__fp gnt_em_img\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"gnt_em_img_i\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wordpressdynamos.com\/timesofnewscdn\/USA\/40944_3f6abbfa-f5d2-4934-b40c-62c8bffa47b9-Pelosi_Gavel.jpg\" alt=\"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., strikes a gavel after announcing a thoroughfare of essay II of impeachment opposite President Donald Trump, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo\/Patrick Semansky)\" \/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">After scarcely 3 full months of debate, sniping, hand-wringing and truly scattered days in a nation&#8217;s history, during 8:25 p.m. EST Thursday, a U.S. House of Representatives <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">voted to cite <strong>President Donald Trump<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;We did all we could, Elijah, we upheld a dual articles of impeachment,&#8221;<strong> Speaker of a House Nancy Pelosi<\/strong> <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">said in a post-vote press conference<\/a>, referencing a late <strong>Rep. Elijah Cummings<\/strong>. &#8220;The boss is impeached.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">It was a mostly approaching vote, and mostly along celebration lines, with no Republicans voting approbation on possibly essay of impeachment. <strong>Rep. Jeff Van Drew<\/strong>, a Democrat Wednesday night, voted opposite impeachment and <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">confirmed his switch to a Republican party<\/a> Thursday with Trump during his side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">But Wednesday night offering a bit of\u00a0a surreal domestic separate screen, with <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Trump holding a theatre during a rally<\/a> in Battle Creek, Michigan, only as a House was voting. He\u00a0seemed <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">to take it all in stride<\/a>.<\/p>\n<aside aria-label=\"advertisement\" class=\"gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al\"><\/aside>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;This\u00a0lawless narrow-minded impeachment is a domestic self-murder impetus for a Democrat party,&#8221; he told a crowd. &#8220;Have we seen my polls in a final 4 weeks?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">He has a point: A USA TODAY\/Suffolk University check this week has <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Trump violence all of his tip Democratic rivals<\/a> in head-to-head matchups.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">As distant as what happens next, well, we&#8217;ll see. <strong>Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell<\/strong> and <strong>Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer<\/strong> <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">met Thursday afternoon<\/a> to plead a subsequent stairs as impeachment <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">heads to a Senate<\/a>. Afterward, McConnell pronounced &#8220;we sojourn during an impasse&#8221; on a routine for a Senate trial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Stay tuned.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_img\"><img class=\"gnt_em_img_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.wordpressdynamos.com\/timesofnewscdn\/USA\/ab75f_c5c50490-e631-4e57-b438-cdf60b4ada71-Klobuchar.jpg\" data-gl-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2019\/12\/20\/USAT\/c5c50490-e631-4e57-b438-cdf60b4ada71-Klobuchar.jpg?width=1320height=842fit=cropformat=pjpgauto=webp 2x\" alt=\"Democratic presidential possibilities from left, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and businessman Tom Steyer strive to answer questions during a Democratic presidential primary plead Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo\/Chris Carlson)\" \/><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"gnt_ar_b_h2\">This week in 2020<\/h2>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">While all eyes were on a Capitol, a Democrats using for boss took to a <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">debate theatre in Los Angeles<\/a>. There were <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">barbs over booze caves<\/a>. There were questions <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">over a party&#8217;s diversity<\/a>. Former <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">President Obama even got a few mentions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Who won and who lost<\/a>? Reporters Savannah Behrmann and Rebecca Morin pennyless that down for you. <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">What were a tip moments?<\/a> Jeanine Santucci has we covered. Want <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">the full blow by blow<\/a>? We&#8217;ve got you.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside aria-label=\"advertisement\" class=\"gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al\"><\/aside>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Thanks, as always, for reading. We&#8217;re holding a few weeks off to applaud a holidays and a finish of a year with family and friends. We wish we get some time off to do a same. Cheers to 2020.\u00a0<em>\u2014 Annah Aschbrenner\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/rssfeeds.usatoday.com\/~\/613473362\/0\/usatodaycomwashington-topstories~OnPolitics-The-president-is-impeached\/<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After scarcely 3 full months of debate, sniping, hand-wringing and truly scattered days in a nation&#8217;s history, during 8:25 p.m. EST Thursday, a U.S. House of Representatives voted to cite President Donald Trump.\u00a0 &#8220;We did all we could, Elijah, we upheld a dual articles of impeachment,&#8221; Speaker of a House Nancy Pelosi said in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-199788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hawaii","tag-washington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}