Last Tuesday, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the House Democrats were finally forced to begin long-overdue impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump after the revelation that the president had abused the power of his office to extort the president of Ukraine to interfere in the 2020 presidential election by providing or manufacturing evidence of corruption or other criminality against Joe Biden. This was at least the second time Trump has solicited the assistance of a foreign country in a presidential election.
Recent days have seen additional information made public about other impeachable offenses committed by Trump and his minions.
Trump reportedly told Russian diplomats during a private 2017 meeting that he didn’t care that Russia had interfered in the 2016 election to benefit him. That meeting offered implicit permission for Russia to do the same again in the 2020 election. We have also learned that Trump sent Cabinet officials such as Attorney General William Barr and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to meet with representatives from foreign intelligence agencies with the goal of discrediting America’s own national security officials and undermining the entire basis of the Mueller Report.
View the complete October 3 article by Chauncey DeVega from Salon on the AlterNet website here.