U.S. Sen. Cory Booker said he supports the impeachment inquiry House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Tuesday.
“The president took an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution. Instead, his words and actions have served to undermine it, along with the very ideals of our nation,” Booker said. “We as lawmakers have a responsibility to do the right thing — and today, I support Speaker Pelosi’s leadership and applaud her announcement of a formal impeachment inquiry. It’s our one remaining path to ensuring justice is served.”
A Wall Street Journal Report released Sunday that said Trump repeatedly pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to work with former New York City Mayor Rudy Guliani, Trump’s personal lawyer, on a probe focusing on Hunter Biden, the son of the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination to take on Trump next year.
There is no evidence of wrongdoing on the part of the elder or younger Biden, who sat on the board of a Ukrainian gas company that was once investigated by the country’s former prosecutor general, Viktor Shokin, who was formally dismissed by Ukraine’s parliament after a series of protests over his blocking a number of high-profile corruption cases.
Further reports indicate Trump froze close to $400 million in military aid to Ukraine ahead of his conversation with Zelensky.
Booker, who is running for the Democratic nod to take on Trump in 2020, has previously called for an impeachment inquiry.
“What we’re facing isn’t a political issue, it’s a moral one,” Booker said. In 2016, Trump openly welcomed foreign adversaries to meddle in our democracy for his own political gain. Now, by his own admission, he appears to be using the same playbook to undermine our democratic institutions and remain in power.”