Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., who has emerged as a prominent impeachment opponent on Capitol Hill, has boasted that she is “proudly the opposite of AOC.” Ed Cox, who is President Richard Nixon’s son-in-law and a former chairman of the New York Republican Party, appeared on Fox News on Monday and said the “AOC effect” was “driving” impeachment. Some Republican allies of the president have tried to cast her as a major driver of the impeachment push. Ocasio-Cortez has become one of the more prominent progressives in Congress since she was elected in a surprising upset last year. He has characterized the impeachment inquiry as a partisan effort by Democrats to oust him. Trump has repeatedly insisted that his interest in investigations into business dealings Biden’s son had in Ukraine was part of a desire to root out corruption in that country. “It’s not just Trump, but who else is going to be implicated in this,” Ocasio-Cortez said, adding, “I think, when it comes to what we’ve discovered, we’re at the point of no return, and it’s just a question of how many crimes have been potentially committed and who else has committed them.”
Vindman also said he warned Ukraine’s newly elected president that it would be improper for him to get involved with political matters in this country.
officials who pushed for an investigation into Biden. Alexander Vindman, who worked on the White House National Security Council, testified that he had raised concerns internally about U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who was initially reluctant to impeach Trump, launched a formal inquiry in September following revelations of a complaint from an intelligence community whistleblower who alleged that military assistance to Ukraine was withheld as Trump pushed that country to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, a political rival. that are impeachable,” including violating the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution by receiving payments from foreign countries while in office and engaging in possible tax fraud. When Ocasio-Cortez began calling for impeachment, she said the president had done “so many things. “He’s clearly engaged in extortion and bribery.” “We’re kind of knee-deep here in impeachment inquiry and so at this point, I think we’re beyond the question as to whether Trump has committed a crime or whether he’s violated the Constitution,” Ocasio-Cortez said. Ocasio-Cortez discussed the issue with Yahoo News on Capitol Hill on Tuesday as the third day of public hearings was being conducted in the Democrats’ ongoing impeachment inquiry. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., who began calling for President Trump to be impeached earlier this year, believes we have now reached “the point of no return” where it is inarguably clear that he has committed criminal acts.
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