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The Hill reports: Conservative attorney George Conway predicted Wednesday that Republicans in the Senate particularly would break with the president and vote for impeachment if Democrats decide to formally support Trump’s impeachment. Conway, husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, tweeted Wednesday that Republican senators would hide their decision to vote against the president until the last possible minute on …

CNN reports: President Donald Trump was incredulous Tuesday as he sat in Trump Tower and watched House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announce she was launching a formal impeachment inquiry against him, sources familiar with the moment say. Sitting in the same building where he launched his long shot presidential campaign four years ago, Trump said he couldn’t believe it, he later …

The Hill reports: Rep. Justin Amash (I-Mich.) on Tuesday responded to President Trump shortly after House Democrats formally launched an impeachment inquiry against him, telling Trump that “it’s not about the transcript of a call.” Amash previously called for impeaching Trump on the grounds that the president obstructed justice in his attempts to impede former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation …

Via press release from Mitch McConnell’s office: “Washington Democrats have been searching for ways to reverse their 2016 election defeat since before President Trump was even inaugurated. “The result has been a two-and-a-half-year impeachment parade in search of a rationale. When investigations by Special Counsel Mueller and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence deflated their breathless accusations of a campaign …

Mediaite reports: Amid Donald Trump’s scandal-packed week, former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci said the president is “done.” “He is gone. It’s only a matter of time now and negotiation. @realDonaldTrump is done,” wrote Scaramucci on Tuesday as news broke that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) will be opening a formal impeachment inquiry in response to Trump repeatedly pressuring …

This piece went up shortly before the latest developments. People Magazine reports: Hillary Clinton on Tuesday joined the rising chorus of Democrats calling for an impeachment investigation into President Donald Trump following reports that he pressured Ukraine’s government to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, who is running against him. Clinton, a sharp critic of Trump’s since narrowly losing to …

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had hardly finished announcing an impeachment inquiry before Glorious Leader snatched up his phone at Trump Tower to wail that those meany Democrats have just RUINED his big day at the United Nations. According to Trump, Democrats have launched this “garbage witch hunt” without even reading the alleged transcript of his call with the Ukrainian president, …

AND IT’S ON. The New York Times reports: Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced on Tuesday that the House would begin a formal impeachment inquiry of President Trump, opening a fresh chapter of confrontation in response to startling allegations that the president sought to enlist a foreign power for his own political gain. “The president must be held acccountable,” she said after …

Roll Call reports: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday would not speculate about how the Senate might handle articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. At his weekly media appearance after the Senate policy luncheons, the Kentucky Republican did say that in conversations with top Trump administration officials, including the secretary of Defense and the secretary of State, he …

NBC News reports: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., who for months resisted efforts to launch impeach proceedings against President Donald Trump, will announce later Tuesday a formal inquiry, according to two Democratic sources close to her. Pelosi’s change of heart comes as dozens of House Democrats — now totaling more than two-thirds of the caucus — have come out in …

As the Democrats finally get serious about impeachment, Glorious Leader this afternoon reacted by claiming to have ordered the release of the “unredacted transcript” of his call with the president of Ukraine. This move comes after Trump has offered several different reasons for having temporarily withheld nearly $400 million in US aid. Now we get to see if this has …

USA Today reports: Former Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday plans to call on Congress to begin impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump if he does not comply with all of Congress’ request for information about a July call he made to Ukraine’s president in which he discussed Biden, according to a senior Biden campaign official. Biden is scheduled to …

The Washington Post reports: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and top Democrats are privately discussing the creation of a select committee to conduct the possible impeachment of President Trump, according to multiple lawmakers and congressional aides, underscoring the momentum in the chamber to oust the president. The California Democrat has spoken to key allies in recent days about establishing a special …

The Hill reports: Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) resisted calls for impeachment as more Democratic representatives are requesting inquiries begin. The Democratic presidential candidate told Fox News she will attend the House Speaker’s scheduled meeting Wednesday to discuss next steps, but impeachment would be “terribly divisive.” “I’ve been consistent in saying I believe that impeachment at this juncture would be terribly …

Politico reports: Speaker Nancy Pelosi and party leaders are ramping up their offensive against President Donald Trump for pressuring Ukrainian officials to investigate Joe Biden — with a potential House vote on a resolution condemning Trump as the caucus edges toward impeachment. Pelosi spent all weekend and Monday working the phones, including reaching out to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry …

CNN reports: House Democrats are nearing a “tipping point” on impeachment in the wake of the Trump administration blocking a whistleblower complaint’s release to Congress, with moderate Democrats who have resisted calls for impeachment privately indicating they could be swayed. But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who sharpened her rhetoric over the weekend, is still not committing to moving forward with …

The Hill reports: Bill Weld, the former Massachusetts governor seeking to challenge President Trump in a GOP primary, said the president’s efforts to pressure Ukraine’s leadership into investigating former Vice President Joe Biden’s son amount to “treason pure and simple.” “Talk about pressuring a foreign country to interfere and control a U.S. election,” Weld said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “It …

Politico reports: Impeachment is becoming more and more likely. Some will tell you it’s approaching a certainty. Think of it this way: President Donald Trump has just admitted that he — the president of the United States — discussed getting dirt on Joe Biden, a domestic political adversary, with a foreign leader. Will more and more fence-sitting Democrats explicitly call …

NBC News reports: A combined 69 percent of registered voters say they don’t like Trump personally, regardless of their feelings about his policy agenda. A record 50 percent say they dislike him personally and dislike his policies, while another 19 percent say that they dislike him but approve of his policies. Just 29 percent say they like Trump personally, with …

The Hill reports: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) called out Democrats late Saturday for what she called their “refusal” to impeach President Trump. The freshman Democrat’s comments came after Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), a Democratic presidential candidate, made similar comments Friday evening, tweeting that “Congress had a duty to begin impeachment” against Trump after former special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia report …