House Democrats plan to huddle Tuesday to discuss the latest allegations about President Trump and how it affects the party’s impeachment push.
Democrats believe a leaked whistleblower allegation against Trump shows he tried to dangle foreign aid to get the Ukraine government to investigate political rival Joe Biden.
A top Democratic aide confirmed the meeting, advising the topic lawmakers will discuss concerns “current events.”
The news has been dominated in recent days by the whistleblower allegation, which was leaked to news outlets.
Another Democratic aide said the Tuesday meeting was added to the calendar to ensure lawmakers were provided enough time to discuss the whistleblower allegations. Democrats will hold another meeting about trade on Wednesday morning.
The charges, unproven, have accelerated calls on the Left that Speaker Nancy Pelosi allow the House to open up a formal impeachment inquiry against the president.
Trump denies the allegation, but Democrats are demanding the president release a transcript of his July 25 call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky.
But Trump admitted talking to Zelensky about Biden and whether, as vice president, Biden threatened to withhold funding from Ukraine in order to force out a Ukraine prosecutor who was probing a gas company that employed his son, Hunter Biden.
The whistleblower, described as a former intelligence officer, has no direct knowledge of the call.
Liberal lawmakers are pushing Pelosi to sanction a formal impeachment.
“At this point, the bigger national scandal isn’t the president’s lawbreaking behavior — it is the Democratic Party’s refusal to impeach him for it,” liberal freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted to her 5.4 million followers over the weekend.
