{"id":91209,"date":"2019-09-24T17:39:07","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T21:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=91209"},"modified":"2019-09-24T17:40:20","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T21:40:20","slug":"impeachment-inquiry-to-begin-on-president-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=91209","title":{"rendered":"Impeachment Inquiry to begin on President Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_91240\" style=\"width: 462px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-91240\" class=\"size-large wp-image-91240\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Trump-wants-us-to-impeach-him.jpg?resize=452%2C333&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"452\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Trump-wants-us-to-impeach-him.jpg?resize=452%2C333&amp;ssl=1 452w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Trump-wants-us-to-impeach-him.jpg?resize=300%2C221&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Trump-wants-us-to-impeach-him.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 452px) 100vw, 452px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-91240\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Impeachment proceedings play into President Trump&#8217;s hands. (Gary Varvel)<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>The mainstream media is focused on President Trump&#8217;s conversation with Ukraine&#8217;s president. The President requested that Ukraine investigate Joe Biden and his son. Prior to this, President Trump had ordered a freeze to military aid.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrats are arguing that this was done as leverage. President Trump argued that he did this on the account that the Europeans weren&#8217;t doing their share with aiding Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From the Associated Press:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Trump has sought to implicate Biden and his son in the kind of corruption that has long plagued Ukraine. Hunter Biden served on the board of a Ukrainian gas company at the same time his father was leading the Obama administration&#8217;s diplomatic dealings with Kyiv. Though the timing raised concerns among anti-corruption advocates, there has been no evidence of wrongdoing by either the former vice president or his son.<\/p>\n<p>Biden said Congress must use its full constitutional authority to investigate Trump&#8217;s actions and if the president doesn&#8217;t cooperate he&#8217;ll leave lawmakers &#8220;with no choice but to initiate impeachment.&#8221; If that happens, Biden said, it will be a tragedy of Trump&#8217;s own making.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The media is in a feeding frenzy over this. However, they don&#8217;t seem to be as enthusiastic reporting on then Vice President Biden threatening Ukraine with the withholding of aid money if a prosecutor investigating his son wasn&#8217;t fired.<\/p>\n<p>Nancy Pelosi initially was opposed to this. However, growing support among the Democrats, and this new turn of events, made her more favorable to initiating impeachment proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>You could read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/a9a0bed9f81343b7a725a9adcd84e01b\">Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mainstream media is focused on President Trump&#8217;s conversation with Ukraine&#8217;s president. The President requested that Ukraine investigate Joe Biden and his son. Prior to this, President Trump had ordered a freeze to military aid. The Democrats are arguing that this was done as leverage. President Trump argued that he did this on the account [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-nJ7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}