by Michael O’Neill

If you read my article in the February 2019 issue of Open House, The politics of power and money, you won’t be surprised that – finally – President Donald J Trump is being investigated for impeachment by the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives.

Article II, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution states: ‘The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors’.

Contrary to the hysterical claim of the Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee that the Democrats have been conspiring since his inauguration to impeach Trump, Speaker Nancy Pelosi sided with those members of her caucus opposed to impeachment investigation, and committed to removing Trump from office only at the 2020 presidential election.

Then the ceiling fell in, with the whistleblower’s revelation that Trump had pressured the new President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, to investigate former US Vice-President Joe Biden, whom he perceived as his most formidable Democratic opponent in the 2020 presidential election, and his son Hunter Biden, for supposed corrupt activities in the Ukraine.