[CNN] House of Representatives impeaches President Donald Trump

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House of Representatives impeaches President Donald Trump

 

🗣 Vocabularies

1) misdemeanor : a crime considered to be one of the less serious types of crime

 

-charging a president with high crimes and misdemeanors 

 

2) obstruction : something that blocks a road, passage, entrance, etc. so that nothing can go along it, or the act of blocking something in this way:

 

3) Culimination : the point at which an event or series of events ends, having developed until it reaches this point

 

4) sprawling : (of a city) covered with buildings across a large area, often ones that have been added gradually over a period of time/ existing or reaching over a large area:

 

-The impeachment votes marked the culmination of a sprawling 

 

5) ramifications : the possible results of an action

- Have you considered all the ramifications of your suggestion?

 

6) staunch : always loyal in supporting a person, organization, or set of beliefs or opinions

 

-He gained a reputation as being a staunch supporter of the ally.

-her committee chairs who led the impeachment proceedings to Trump and his staunchest defenders in Congress.

 

7) antagonist :  person who is strongly opposed to something or someone

 

8) whistleblower : a person who tells someone in authority about something illegal that is happening, especially in a government department or a company

 

-an anonymous whistleblower complaint changed the course of history for both Trump and his chief antagonist 

 

9) derelict : Derelict buildings or places are not cared for and are in bad condition

 

-If we do not act now we would be derelict in our duty.

 

10) acquit : to decide officially in a law court that someone is not guilty of a particular crime

 

-Johnson and Clinton were acquitted by the Senate

 

11) stonewall: to stop a discussion from developing by refusing to answer questions or by talking in such a way that you prevent other people from giving their opinions

 

-obstructing Congress by stonewalling all the subpoenas from Congress trying to investigate his conduct.

 

12) subpoena: to order someone to go to a law court to answer questions

 

13) chalk up sth : to have a success of failure

 

14) defiance : behavior in which you refuse to obey someone or something

-  Democrats, however, chalked up the defiance of subpoenas to evidence of congressional obstruction rather than fighting in court to force witnesses to appear 

 

✍️ Summary

the house voted to remove the President from office based on abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. 

The votes marked the culimination of a sprawling and rapidly moving 3 month democratic investication into allegations that the president pressured Ukraine  to investigate his political rivals while withholding US security assistance and a White House meeting. Donald Trump became 3rd leader who got impeached in history.

 

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