Impeachment drains White House power
Oct 25, 2019
3 minutes
By Brian Bennett
PHOTOGRAPH BY SAUL LOEB
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With reporting by
ALANA ABRAMSON
and
PHILIP ELLIOTT/WASHINGTON
RESIDENT DONALD TRUMP IS SUPPOSED TO be the man who could shoot somebody in the middle of Fifth Avenue without losing any political support. But the threat of impeachment is constraining the President’s power in surprising ways. As defiant witnesses provide damning testimony in the House inquiry, Republicans are increasingly seeking shelter from unrelated scandals. The result—a spreading weakness in the West Wing—has driven increasingly erratic behavior by Trump, according
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