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8 Trump Impeachment Holdouts Remain Among House Democrats After Rep. McAdams Changes Mind

There are now just eight House Democrats who dont yet support President Donald Trumps impeachment or..

There are now just eight House Democrats who dont yet support President Donald Trumps impeachment or an impeachment inquiry after Rep. Ben McAdams (D-Utah) last week changed his mind and said he now favors an investigation into the whistleblower complaint.

Speaking at a town hall on Oct. 4, the first-term Democrat made clear he was no longer on the fence about his decision.

“The presidents refusal to further cooperate with congressional oversight, without an impeachment inquiry, is regrettable,” McAdams said, reported The Salt Lake Tribune.

He stated that in order to determine the facts, he believes a formal probe should be carried out.

“We find ourselves today at the point that an [impeachment] inquiry is necessary to get all of the facts on the table.”

However, he made clear that while he now favors the congressional impeachment inquiry, he wont comment on whether he believes Trump should be impeached until the process is carried out.

“I am not on the fence,” McAdams said. “It is my duty to allow this process to play out without partisanship and with impartiality.”

His updated comments came after he previously refused to sway on the matter. The Utah Democrat previously said he wanted “all the facts” before deciding on whether to support impeachment proceedings against Trump.

In a statement on Sept. 25, McAdams said that the summary of Trumps July 25 phone call with his Ukrainian counterpart suggests the president “was improperly using his influence with a foreign power to damage a political opponent.”

But the congressman said he needed to see all the facts before deciding how to move forward.

The impeachment inquiry was formally launched by the House Democrats late last month after media reports about alleged improper conduct during Trumps call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The call prompted an alleged whistleblower to file a complaint, alleging that the president was leveraging his office to obtain “dirt” on a political opponent—2020 Democratic candidate Joe Biden.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announces Trump impeachment inquiry at the U.S. Capitol in Washington
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announces Trump impeachment inquiry at the U.S. Capitol in Washington
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announces the House of Representatives will launch a formal inquiry to investigate whether to impeach U.S. President Donald Trump following a closed House Democratic caucus meeting at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Sept. 24, 2019. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)

A day after Pelosi launched the impeachment inquiry, the White House released a transcript of the Trump-Zelensky July 25 phone call. The transcript revealed that Trump had asked Zelensky to look into a technology firm that was hired by the Democratic National Committee, CrowdStrike, and examine Bidens dealings with Ukraine when he was vice president. In 2018, Biden bragged that he pressured then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in 2016 to remove a prosecutor in charge of a probe of the private Ukrainian gas company, Burisma, where Bidens son sat on the board.

Trump has repeatedly maintained that his phone call with the Ukrainian president was “perfect.” On Oct. 3, Trump reiterated this in a series of posts on Twitter.

“There wasnt ANYTHING said wrong in my conversation with the Ukrainian President. This is a Democrat Scam!” he wrote.

zelensky speaks about phone call
zelensky speaks about phone call
President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky hold a meeting in New York on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 25, 2019. (Saul Loeb/AFP/GeRead More – Source

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