How Trump impeachment took on air of inevitability
Dec 18, 2019
4 minutes
Decades hence, when historians consider the fast-moving events that led to the historic Dec. 18, 2019, House vote on articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, they may see them not as a sudden eruption, but as the culmination of long-standing forces.
In that sense, they may write the chronicle of an impeachment foretold.
President Trump took office vowing to be a disruptive leader who would push American political norms to the breaking point, and perhaps beyond. Democrats were aghast at his behavior from the first. In Washington, political experts were speculating about impeachment – and how it might happen – as
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