Pelosi Pulls The Plug

It's been a long wait.  Yesterday afternoon, House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi pulled the plug on the Trump presidency.  She called for an impeachment inquiry.

This could have happened sooner, and there were many who hoped it would.  Pelosi wanted to wait until she had the firmest possible grounds for impeachment. Following on a week of gross defiance of Congress by presidential aides, a whistle-blower report surfaced that the President had attempted to coerce the Ukraine government into tainting the reputation of the Biden family.  The President's lawyer in the matter, Rudy Giuliani, at first denied and then affirmed that this was true.

So this morning, the President called Ms. Pelosi,

“The president actually said to Nancy Pelosi, ‘Hey, can we do something about this whistleblower complaint? Can we work something out?'”

“And [Pelosi] said, ‘Yes, you can tell your people to obey the law,'” she added, “so she quickly swatted that down and made it clear that it is full steam ahead.”

 The President's personal lawyer, former NY mayor Rudolph Giuliani, was an active participant in the crime -

"President Trump’s attempt to pressure the leader of Ukraine followed a months-long fight inside the administration that sidelined national security officials and empowered political loyalists — including the president’s personal lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani — to exploit the U.S. relationship with Kiev, current and former U.S. officials said."

This morning the White House released a transcript of a call between Trump and the Ukrainian President where Trump had pushed for a Biden investigation.  It confirms he broke the law.

More to come...