Trump Impeachment Latest: Democrats kicks as Republicans put weight behind President

Donald Trump attends the Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia. Photograph Credit: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images

Donald Trump has done “far worse than anything Nixon did”, a leader of the impeachment process in the House said on Sunday, adding: “The question is why are Republicans placing this president above their oath of office.”

Nixon resigned in 1974, before he could be impeached over the Watergate break-in and his efforts to cover it up.

Trump faces two articles of impeachment related to pressure he applied on Ukraine to launch political investigations that would help his bid for re-election as well as obstruction of Congress by blocking the appearance of key witnesses before congressional hearings.

On ABC’s This Week on Sunday, Adam Schiff, chair of the House intelligence committee, said: “If anything this president’s conduct is far worse than anything Nixon did, far more sweeping in its obstruction of accountability, far more damaging to our national security and the cover-up that was Watergate.”............READ MORE>>>

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