Dem Candidates Agree on impeachment Inquiry

The Democratic presidential debate, on Tuesday  begins with all 12 of the candidates expressed support for the House impeachment inquiry of Donald Trump.

Democrats debate at Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio. (Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump’s efforts to convince Ukrainian officials to start an

investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter led House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to launch an impeachment inquiry in September.

“Sometimes there are issues that are bigger than politics, and I think that’s the case with this impeachment inquiry,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren said when asked whether Democrats shouldn’t simply be content to try to remove Trump from the White House in the 2020 election rather than by impeachment.

Sen. Bernie Sanders said Democrats had no choice but to impeach Trump. “I think in terms of the Ukrainian incident, the idea that we have a president of the United States who is prepared to hold back national security money to one of our allies to get dirt on a presidential candidate is beyond comprehension. So I look forward, by the way not only to a speedy expeditious impeachment process, but Mitch McConnell has got to do the right thing and allow a free and fair trial in the Senate.”

Biden, who told moderator Anderson Cooper that his son Hunter “did nothing wrong” by joining the board of directors of the Ukrainian natural-gas company Burisma Holdings, said Trump’s refusal to cooperate with the House inquiry was itself impeachable. “I said from the beginning that if in fact Trump continued to stonewall what the Congress is entitled to know about his background, what he did, all the accusations in the Mueller report, if they did that they would have no choice — no choice but to begin an impeachment proceeding which gives them more power to seek more information,” Biden said.

Sen. Kamala Harris said Trump has “committed crimes in plain sight.”

“I mean, it’s shocking but he told us who he was,” Harris said, signaling her support for the impeachment inquiry.

While Sen. Cory Booker said Democrats had to be “fair” about how they conducted the impeachment inquiry, he also stressed that Trump had “violated” his oath of office and needed to be held accountable.

• Yahoo