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AOC Claims Democrats’ “Refusal to Impeach” Trump is a “National Scandal”

Saturday evening, freshman lawmaker made the case that Democrats’ refusal to impeach Trump is a “bigger national scandal” than the “president’s lawbreaking behavior.”

Earlier in the day, 2020 Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren tweeted similar sentiments.

After the Mueller report, Congress had a duty to begin impeachment. By failing to act, Congress is complicit in Trump’s latest attempt to solicit foreign interference to aid him in US elections. Do your constitutional duty and impeach the president.

Per Newsweek, Ocasio-Cortez, a key figure in the Democratic party’s progressive caucus, has publicly backed impeaching Trump since June. “I would support impeachment. I think that, you know, we have the grounds to do it,” she told CNN in an interview.

She came out much more strongly in support earlier this month, calling out Republicans for their continued backing of the president. “I want to see every Republican go on the record and knowingly vote against impeachment of this president knowing his corruption, having it on the record so that they can have that stain on their careers for the rest of their lives,” she told reporters.

The progressive congresswoman’s latest complaint about her party’s inaction came after new allegations emerged that Trump pressured Ukrainian leaders to open an investigation into the business dealings of Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden. Following alleged efforts by Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani to pressure Ukraine on the matter, $250 million in military aide to the country was temporarily withheld. It was eventually released after bipartisan pressure from Washington lawmakers.

This article was written by the staff of TheConservativeOpinion.com 

By  Jon Heltzel

Source: theconservativeopinion

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