House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler is growing increasingly convinced President Trump abused his power and is leaving the door open to voting on articles of impeachment, according to a new report.
“I feel the testimony was pretty damning,” Nadler told CNN Thursday. “I’ll keep my mind open [on drafting articles of impeachment] at the moment.”
Should the House vote on articles of impeachment, they would first have to pass a vote in the Democrat-controlled Judiciary Committee. Leading Republicans in the Senate have said impeachment is “dead on arrival” in their chamber.
Nadler is one of several committee heads leading investigations into Trump’s conduct while in office.
The House Intelligence Committee on Wednesday heard testimony from career foreign diplomats William Taylor and George Kent. Both men were called by Democrats as witnesses to what a whistleblower alleges to be Trump’s extortion of the Ukrainian president using foreign aid as a bargaining chip with a request to investigate Joe Biden.
Nadler has said he believes Trump had committed impeachable offense even before the Ukraine scandal came to light.
Trump has said his call with Ukraine was “perfect,” and Democrats like Nadler are leading “the greatest political witch hunt in American history.”
