Dear MoveOn member,
House Leader Nancy Pelosi has officially announced that she will be opening an impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump. This is after a report came out stating that, in order to pressure Ukraine's president to help Trump's re-election, Donald Trump withheld nearly $400 million in aid that Congress had appropriated to Ukraine.1 A partial summary of a phone call was released by the White House this morning, confirming Trump's attempt to seek foreign assistance in his political campaign by smearing a political rival. He even encouraged the Ukrainian president to work with both the U.S. government's attorney general and Trump's personal attorney.2 This is an egregious and obvious abuse of power—and only the latest in a long line of impeachable offenses and abuses by Trump. Now is a critical moment where Congress can step up and hold a sitting president accountable for abusing his role for personal gain.
Our nation's founders made sure that the Constitution contained a check on a president who abused power and broke the law, and it is time for all of Congress to fulfill their constitutional duty.
Sign this petition demanding that Congress impeach Trump!
Donald Trump and those around him have sought to undermine the institutions of our democracy in ways we've never seen before. His dealings with Ukraine and manipulation of foreign relations for his own personal interests are just the most recent examples of his abuse of power.
The Mueller Report and Robert Mueller's testimony confirmed that Trump has not been exonerated and that there are open matters of obstruction of justice that only Congress can pursue. Michael Cohen has called Trump a "conman," a "racist," and a "cheat." In his testimony in front of the House Oversight Committee, Cohen shared that Trump knew about the hacking of the Democratic National Committee emails and their eventual release by Wikileaks.
We will not treat this as normal. And politicians in Washington must not continue to conduct business as usual. Everyone in Congress must look in the mirror and decide how they will fulfill their oath to defend our Constitution and which side of history they want to be on.
If they fail to do so, millions of MoveOn members across the country will hold them accountable.
Thanks!
—Mara Schechter
Sources:
1."Nancy Pelosi Announces Formal Impeachment Inquiry of Trump," The New York Times, September, 24, 2019
https://act.moveon.org/go/94345?t=10&akid=246769%2E10220574%2EtGsitQ
2. "Trump pressed Ukraine's president to work with Barr for dirt on Biden," Politico, September, 25, 2019
https://act.moveon.org/go/94522?t=12&akid=246769%2E10220574%2EtGsitQ
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