After a long period of stalling and debating, Nancy Pelosi has announced the beginning of an official impeachment inquiry for Donald Trump, following a whistleblower report that Trump recently tried to use the withholding of U.S. military aid to Ukraine as leverage for the Ukrainian president to investigate Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
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*deep breath*
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Anywho, with that out of my system, this finally makes Trump the third U.S. president ever to enter official impeachment proceedings (after committing countless impeachable offenses since entering office, but hey, the rules only matter sometimes). I'm under no illusion that McConnell will allow the procedure to move past the Senate, but this is a huge black mark on the administration visible for all to see, and hopefully it will get dragged out well into the election year. Will it mobilize his base to the voting booths in greater numbers than ever before to fight for Dear Leader's innocence? Yes. Will it also tip the scales of everyone else who could possibly be swayed against him? God willing.
We stand on the precipice of history in the making, my friends, no matter what happens in the upcoming days.